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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

Top 8 — Qualifying Round 1

The first qualifying round for this year’s Top 8 tournament will be played next Wednesday, January 13th, at 8pm in the Ireland room on KGS. With fourteen candidates contending for the four open places in the Top 8, perhaps the largest field the tournament has ever seen, there will be two qualifying rounds, the second…

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James & Ruari win the Rengo

2 additional tiebreak rounds were required to declare a winner. Final standings were as follows: Tie break round 2 James & Ruari bt Matei & Niall
Tie break round 1 Matei & Niall bt Graham & Clara James & Ruari bt Peter & Stephen
2 wins James & Ruari, Graham & Clara, Matei & Niall…

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Top 8 Entry Deadline

Just a quick reminder that the entry deadline for the Top 8 is a week from today, midnight Wednesday December 16th. Email eoghanbarry at outlook.com with your name, email address and phone number to enter. For more details about the tournament, see the original post. The tournament is open to all Irish nationals, and…

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Irish Winter rengo/pair go entries now open

Entries are now open for the Irish Winter Rengo/Pair go championships
To enter, please email james8hut A@T hotmail D.O.T com stating rank, preferred partner, and whether you’re willing to play in December. If you don’t have a partner, I’ll find you one. If you think you’re not strong enough to enter, slap yourself in…

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Ireland vs Grenoble – How it happened…

This Monday took place a fabulous event : the first of a set of Friendly Team Matches between Ireland and some famous French clubs! We had the extreme honour of having a live comment of the 11 games by GoPro Yeon Woo, Korean 2p from Korea who is both a fab player and a very…

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