In order to celebrate the end of our very successfull handicap go tournament, IGA members will meet in Dublin City Centre for a nice meal in a Chinese Restaurant. Here is the opportunity to meet fellows go players outside the Pembroke, in a nice and relaxed atmosphere! Location: Mao’s Restaurant. Clarendon Street.
Date: Saturday,…

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Kiseido, the famous go book and equipment publisher and supplier has announced that they are offering a 10% discount o­n all orders of English language books and equipment, and free shipping. For those of you who didn’t top up your book collection at the Irish Open last weekend, now’s your chance. Check…

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This IGA will hold its AGM in the Pembroke Inn o­n Monday, February 16th at 20:00. One of the issues that is up for discussion at the AGM is whether to make the Irish Open the main source of qualifying points for the Korean Incheon World Amateur Baduk Championship.

As many of you probably�know, the 2004 European Oza tournament is being held at the European Go Centre in Amsterdam from February 5 – 8. Stephen Flinter (1d) (your editor) will be representing Ireland at this event. I hope to be able to post a number of articles during and after the tournament…

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Welcome to the Irish Go Association web site. As you can see from the site, we're o­nly just getting started! However, over the coming weeks and months we expect to populate the site with everything related to Irish go, including the history of go in Ireland, the clubs in the country, the championships past and…

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