Getting down to the nitty gritty
Photo "Eight Ball Pool" by ArtJsan courtesy of www.FreeDigitalPhoto.net It's over. The summer, I mean, not my pool playing days. Not only have the heavens opened to provide us with a long-overdue clean up of the streets, but the glamour of travelling to international competitions of the late summer is now over. The pool playing season has started, and here we go, head down, cue lined up and...shoot. It was, though, if you can hold with my reminiscing a moment, a bloody good summer. The EBA 2015 Nations Cup in Killarney was a brilliant event. The location couldn't have been more perfect: what a lovely place Killarney is, and what friendly, welcoming people. The venue was superb and what all competing pool players need when travelling is their physical comforts made easy so they can concentrate on their game. I couldn't fault the Gleneagles Hotel, nor the organisation of the tournament. And then there was the fun. I met some genuinely decent people,