ICU NEW YEAR FESTIVAL 2026 - OPEN AND 50/65 IRISH CHAMPIONSHIPS

Location Stillorgan Talbot Hotel, Dublin
Start date 2026-01-01
End date 2026-01-04
Sections Open, 50+, 65+
Contact Ivan Baburin
Event website s1.chess-results.com/Tnr1326640.aspx?lan=1&SNode=S0
livechesscloud.com broadcast URL view.livechesscloud.com/#251d2844-9834-47dc-a8a9-cb6d6f3de702
lichess.org broadcast URL lichess.org/broadcast/the-irish-50-and-65-championships-and-new-year-open-events-2026/round-2/91crQ5Rw#boards
Category Irish
FIDE Rated? Yes
Time Control(s) Classical
Notes

Rounds at 10am/3pm each day, with round 1 at 6:30pm.

More details to follow.

Entries

Open 40 entries

2245 CM Shane Melaugh

2194 FM Colm Daly

2162 Pratik Mulay

2055 Harry Braine

2047 FM Gordon Freeman

2044 Alice O'Gorman

2007 Conor Sheehan

1992 Rudolf Tirziman

1980 Padraig Hughes

1975 Lorcan Heron

1971 Mark McGrath

1940 Vivaan Singhal

1938 Brian Gallagher

1912 Darshan Choudhury

1891 Sitki Fatih Karacol

1891 Alex Goss

1889 Darragh Greenan

1875 Fiachra Moore

1866 Murray Liu

1853 Seth McGrady

1821 Indrajit Desai

1798 Ciaran O'Reilly

1777 Joe O'Hanlon

1761 Eoin Scully

1732 Liam O'Daly

1668 Sean Slevin

1665 Alan Lane

1640 David Lynch

1628 Edgar Manuel Cavaco Afonso

1583 Patrick Hanna

1575 Kevin Fitzpatrick

1552 David Greenan

1550 Conor Lynch

1501 Prisha Gupta

1490 Martin J. Sharry

1436 Daniel Afanasiev Elioutin

1368 Michael Afanasiev Elioutin

1272 Martin Schranz

1104 Ganesh Katuri

700 Fionn Lynch

50+ 11 entries

2502 GM Keith C. Arkell

2169 Jonathan O'Connor

1874 Anthony Fox

1836 Vjekoslav Novak

1811 Shahram Nikrow

1808 Derek O'Byrne

1784 Fred Armstrong

1748 Brian O'Gorman

1747 Joseph A. McDonnell

1690 Pat Fitzsimons

1642 Jimmy Deneher

65+ 26 entries

2040 Gerard O'Connell

2023 CM Tim Harding

1994 CM Gerard MacElligott

1976 Joe Noone

1929 Ciaran Quinn

1874 Pat Reynolds

1872 Bernard Boyle

1850 Jim Murray

1847 NM Eamon Keogh

1842 John Loughran

1826 Tony Bermingham

1765 Brian Moore

1764 Art Coldrick

1755 Noel Quinn

1699 Eugene Donohoe

1694 Maurice Buckley

1689 Michael Burniston

1665 Niall P. Whelan

1665 Peter J. Lynch

1641 Jasvinderpal Singh

1590 Tom O'Sullivan

1582 Shay Scott

1573 Nikolai Dimitrov

1563 Chris Ducker

1477 Sean Reinhardt

1344 Ronan Rigney