The 5th Senior Event of the season was won by Carlow's own Colvin O'Brien who came through the field to win his first ever senior ranking event on Sunday beating Wexford's Joe Delaney 5-4 in the final. The top seed's fell like flies on Saturday in a day of upsets but come Sunday morning Colvin was the man in form as he defeated Dublin's George O'Hara and Kilkenny's John O'Sullivan to reach the final. 

Saturday's upsets started with the defeat of No.2 seed Vincent Muldoon at the hands of Niel Madigan but it did not stop there. Soon after No.4 seed Carl Murphy had exited the event and come the Last 16 that night we saw Robert Murphy, Martin McCrudden, David Hogan and Brendan O'Donoghue all fall by the wayside. Indeed it was O'Brien who produced a great clearance to defeat the No.1 seed Hogan to reach the quarter finals. With all the top players exiting at nearly the same stage the overall rankings won't be disturbed that much with Hogan now 2 points ahead of O'Donoghue and 3 ahead of Muldoon as we enter the last senior before the Irish Championships.

The weekend however belonged to O'Brien who held his nerve in two tough 4-3 matches to see off George O'Hara and then John O'Sullivan to reach the final where he then came back from 3-1 down at one stage to win the event in the final frame. 

One noticeable performance this weekend was that of 16 year old Sean Conway who played some superb snooker to reach the quarter finals and should have probably gone on further. The current World Under-21 Pool Champion had some excellent victories to reach the quarters including wins over Tom O'Driscoll, Clinton Franey, Nigel Power and George Tierney.