{"id":401018,"date":"2025-09-05T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:52:11","slug":"fergal-quinn-edges-out-robbie-mcguigan-in-betvictor-northern-ireland-open-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401018\/","title":{"rendered":"Fergal Quinn edges out Robbie McGuigan in BetVictor Northern Ireland Open \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fergal Quinn won the all-Irish clash against Robbie McGuigan in the first qualifying round of the BetVictor Northern Ireland Open in Leicester on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Coalisland rookie led 2-0 against the 21-year-old from Antrim, but then found himself one down with two to play when McGuigan reeled off three frames on the spin, the middle one with a break of 75.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, Quinn forced the decider with breaks of 47 and 53 and took a scrappy seventh frame to set up a match with Zak Surety on Sunday (4pm).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Victory in that will earn Quinn a place in the final stages at the Waterfront in Belfast next month (October 19-26).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/president-of-ireland-a-nasty-little-man-says-dup-councillor-AQYOPAZDIVON5KSEFEU6MOZH2U\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"President of Ireland a &#x2018;nasty little man&#x2019; says DUP councillor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EZYM5VEF25F3HICRZVZWI5CQFE.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/business\/tesco-set-to-open-new-belfast-store-on-the-site-of-the-citys-oldest-sports-shop-53NHDLB5QJCOPNVDXLGP2YJPSM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Tesco set to open new Belfast store on the site of the city&#x2019;s oldest sports shop\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/K2AQ7VKNVZLWXNXIPF5GSM2D7E.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ken Doherty and NIBSA amateurs Zak Sheldon and Joel Connolly were first-round losers on Thursday, Dublin veteran Doherty lost 4-1 to Yao Pengcheng of China, Sheldon 4-0 to Poland\u2019s Antoni Kowalski and Connolly 4-1 to England\u2019s Sam Craigie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leone Crowley came through 4-2 against Bulcsu Revesz of Hungary on Friday night and joins fellow Cork man Aaron Hill and Antrim\u2019s Jordan Brown in round-two action on Sunday evening (7pm). Crowley takes on David Lilley, Hill faces Gao Yang of China and Brown plays Mitchell Mann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fergal Quinn won the all-Irish clash against Robbie McGuigan in the first qualifying round of the BetVictor Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[138351,1144,10380,16,15,54475],"class_list":{"0":"post-401018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-betvictor-northern-ireland-open","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-snooker","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-waterfront"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153911615797284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}