{"id":221280,"date":"2026-01-01T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221280\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:14:15","slug":"legendary-irish-snooker-player-spotted-in-galway-pub-as-former-world-champion-poses-with-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221280\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Irish snooker player spotted in Galway pub as former world champion poses with staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former world snooker champion Ken Doherty poses with staff at Tig C\u00f3il\u00ed in Galway city. Photo: @tigchoili\/Instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b721c48e-4c1e-4871-a3e8-b24e7fdc5722.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former world snooker champion Ken Doherty poses with staff at Tig C\u00f3il\u00ed in Galway city. Photo: @tigchoili\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former Irish world champion snooker player Ken Doherty has been enjoying the festive period in Galway this week after being spotted at a popular pub in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The legendary player was visiting Galway city on Monday, December 29 and spent part of his evening in Tig C\u00f3il\u00ed to soak up the atmosphere and music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world snooker champion Ken Doherty poses with staff at Tig C\u00f3il\u00ed in Galway city. Photo: @tigchoili\/Instagram Former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,554,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-221280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-joseph-murray","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}