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Welcome to the Irish Go Association (IGA) website. Learn about the ancient game of Go (aka Baduk or WeiQi) and find out where you can join one of our clubs throughout Ireland. Be sure to check out the IGA Discord channel where you can meet our community, talk about Go and organise activities online.

Clubs

Belfast — on alternate Mondays from 18:30, Northern Lights (Ormeau Road) AND/OR on Sundays in 2RA between 2-5pm (depending on the chess meet-up happening)

Dublin — Tuesdays 7pm - 10pm in Toners, 139 Baggot Street Lower and Wednesdays 7pm - 10pm in Board, 29 Clanbrassil Street Upper

Lisburn — Saturdays, 10am — Facebook

Galway — Wednesdays, 7pm, McSwiggan's

Tournaments & Events

Smithfield Special
26th May, Workday, Dublin 7

Confucius Cup
20th–22nd September, UCD, Dublin

Latest News

Registration Open for League Season 7

Registration is now open for the 7th season of the IGA Online League. The 7th season will run from April through June 2025. The League is organised into groups of 4–5 players of similar strength, with each group playing a double round-robin (so you will play two games against each other player in your…

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Ulster Open 2025

The time has come again for us to offer you the IGA Ulster Open 2025.
Please see below the registered players so far.

Player Rank Club EGD PIN
Yifan Bao 5d N/A 20613681
Lucretiu Calota 4d St.Albans 10350395
Tom Coulthard 1d Newcastle 12686278
Byoung-Ju Lee 4k Dublin 19701814
Erdem Kurtoglu 4k N/A 15601806
Tiberiu Gociu 4k Belfast 12850431
David Stephenson 12k Belfast

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Annual General Meeting — March 4th

The Annual General Meeting of the Irish Go Association will take place online, at 8.30pm, Tuesday, March 4th. The main purpose of the meeting is to elect the officers of the Association for the coming year. Members may also propose motions for vote, and there will be opportunity for open discussion of the direction of…

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Entries Open for the Irish Go Championship Qualifiers

Hi everyone, the entries for the Irish Go Championship have just opened. This is the most important title that Irish Go has to offer. To enter, fill out this entry form. In order to be eligible to enter, you have to have been living in the island of Ireland…

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Friday 18th of October: a Franco-Irish duel

Irish go has a long history of friendly events and friendly competition with French clubs, some of the stories and results of previous franco-irish club tournaments can be found in the archives of this website. With the current Irish champion being a French national, it was natural to organise an auto-destructive clash between…

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