Ronnie O’Sullivan has revealed he will commute to the World Snooker Championship from Dublin for the duration of his involvement in the tournament.<\/p>\n
The 50-year-old will begin his quest for an eighth victory at Sheffield’s Crucible, which begins on Saturday and runs through to 4 May.<\/p>\n
O’Sullivan warmed up for his latest tilt at a competition he first won 25 years ago with victory in the inaugural John Virgo Trophy, where he comprehensively defeated John Higgins in Sunday’s final at Goffs, Co Kildare.<\/p>\n
Following the 6-0 whitewash of his long-term rival, O’Sullivan revealed his upcoming commute for the World Championship.<\/p>\n
“The crowd here was amazing. Any venue we play in Ireland, but especially here at Goffs, the atmosphere is electric. Amazing,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I mean I live here quite a lot now. I spend three months a year here. I’ve always loved coming to Ireland. It has always had a special place in my heart. But having lived here the last year or so, it’s been great. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”<\/p>\n
O’Sullivan will begin his tournament next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O’Sullivan has revealed he will commute to the World Snooker Championship from Dublin for the duration of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-399325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399325","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=399325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}