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

2265 CM Shane Melaugh

2192 FM Colm Daly

2174 Pratik Mulay

2084 FM Gordon Freeman

2049 Alice O'Gorman

2041 Harry Braine

2002 Conor Sheehan

1993 Rudolf Tirziman

1984 Padraig Hughes

1980 Brian Gallagher

1971 Mark McGrath

1968 Lorcan Heron

1957 Fiachra Moore

1942 Darshan Choudhury

1933 Murray Liu

1910 Vivaan Singhal

1909 Alex Goss

1879 Sitki Fatih Karacol

1874 Darragh Greenan

1856 Seth McGrady

1821 Indrajit Desai

1818 Ciaran O'Reilly

1779 Eoin Scully

1758 Joe O'Hanlon

1714 Liam O'Daly

1674 Sean Slevin

1664 Edgar Manuel Cavaco Afonso

1658 Alan Lane

1648 Patrick Hanna

1636 David Lynch

1584 Prisha Gupta

1550 Conor Lynch

1540 David Greenan

1539 Kevin Fitzpatrick

1472 Martin J. Sharry

1452 Daniel Afanasiev Elioutin

1382 Michael Afanasiev Elioutin

1272 Martin Schranz

1190 Ganesh Katuri

700 Fionn Lynch

50+ 11 entries

2480 GM Keith C. Arkell

2168 Jonathan O'Connor

1868 Anthony Fox

1857 Vjekoslav Novak

1811 Shahram Nikrow

1808 Derek O'Byrne

1752 Fred Armstrong

1748 Brian O'Gorman

1747 Joseph A. McDonnell

1711 Pat Fitzsimons

1679 Jimmy Deneher

65+ 26 entries

2012 Gerard O'Connell

2008 CM Tim Harding

1996 CM Gerard MacElligott

1967 Joe Noone

1928 Ciaran Quinn

1881 Bernard Boyle

1853 John Loughran

1850 Pat Reynolds

1847 NM Eamon Keogh

1838 Jim Murray

1814 Tony Bermingham

1781 Brian Moore

1767 Art Coldrick

1754 Noel Quinn

1705 Eugene Donohoe

1689 Michael Burniston

1677 Maurice Buckley

1665 Niall P. Whelan

1651 Peter J. Lynch

1641 Jasvinderpal Singh

1567 Tom O'Sullivan

1560 Shay Scott

1557 Chris Ducker

1517 Nikolai Dimitrov

1431 Sean Reinhardt

1344 Ronan Rigney