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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 — every other Monday from 18.30, Northern Lights (Ormeau Road)

Dublin — NEW: Mondays 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

October Rip-Off Tournament

In honour of John Gibson’s many contributions to Irish go, I present the inaugural October Rip-Off, a one-day tournament in the nation’s capital. The tournament will take place on October 30th, in the Teachers’ Club. The scene of many great rip-offs in years gone by, the Teacher’s Club is located in Dublin’s city centre,…

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Chris Welch wins Correspondence Championship

Friend of Irish go, Chris Welsh (South Africa) demonstrated that there are limits to friendship by beating all comers in the A Bracket of the 2021 Correspondence Championship. Second place went to Alex Delogu, narrowly edging out Noel Mitchell by a single point on the second tie-break. Carol Doyle won the B bracket in equally…

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Club Meetings Resume in Dublin

Collegians Go Club is returning to Toner’s pub (139 Lr. Baggot Street, Dublin 2) tomorrow night from 7.30pm onwards. Note that meetings will be on Tuesdays from now on, to avoid clashing with the Wednesday night meetings on OGS. Covid measures may occasionally require a last minute change of venue — please check…

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Victory for Ireland in the KPMC

James Hutchinson won this afternoon in the first game in the group stage against Brunei by 83.5 points. James’ thoughts are here: https://online-go.com/game/35824133 The entire game can be found here: https://online-go.com/demo/715704 (Some of the comments are maybe wrong as the game seems to have mistranscribed due to technical errors on the…

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From WAGC to KPMC

After an intense week of go, Gavin will fly back to Ireland from Vladivostok with a great 3/6 score on the world scene, competing in the World Amateur Go Championship! He also competed in the high level Russian Cup and get a brilliant 3/5 there too.
Ireland has been well represented and ends up at…

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