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Along with all the usual fan favourites, next year’s Irish Open festival, which is taking place from March 26 to April 6 at the Royal Dublin Society in Ballsbridge, will see a whole load of brand new tournaments added to...
Following the success of this year’s inaugural Irish Open Deaf Championship at the Irish Open, we are massively increasing the number of dedicated tournaments for Deaf players to create a “festival within a festival” at the start of next year’s...
Casey Farrell, the 15-year-old daughter of Irish Open Event Coordinator Laura Carroll, has won gold at the IFMA Youth Muay Thai World Championships in Abu Dhabi! Casey, who competes in the 14/15 yr old, +71kg category, triumphed despite tearing...
Casey Farrell, the 15-year-old daughter of Irish Open Event Coordinator Laura Carroll, has made it through to the final of the IFMA Youth Muay Thai World Championships in Abu Dhabi! It’s a huge achievement for the Kilkenny schoolgirl who...
It’s nearly 7am and outside the RDS in Dublin, it’s drizzling, the birds are chirruping and it’s been daylight for over an hour. Inside the Main Hall, a few dealers and floor staff are struggling to keep their eyes open....
2026 will mark the 46th year of the event with another unforgettable festival running from March 26 to April 6 at the Royal Dublin Society. The Irish Open is the largest and richest poker event in Ireland and is the...
The Irish Open is getting a welcome boost this month with the announcement that poker events whizz Nataly Sopacuaperu is joining the team as operations and marketing consultant. Nataly is well-known to hundreds of European poker players thanks to...
The Irish Open has won Best Live Poker Event at this year’s SiGMA Euro-Med Awards in Malta. The Irish Open – the largest and richest poker event in Ireland – saw off stiff competition in a category that also featured EPT...
When Austrian poker player Klemens Roiter arrived in Dublin in April, he was already a highly accomplished player. With results going back to 2011 and some $2.2 million in live tournament winnings to his name, Roiter was celebrating his biggest...
Like every year, the 2025 Irish Open brought us some incredible tournament triumphs. Chief among these, of course, was Simon Wilson defeating a 4,562-entry field on home soil to take down the Main Event for €600,000. But at this...
