Rory Byrne, Conor O'Hare and Chris O'Kane represented Ireland at the U19 Worlds in New Zealand and were accompanied by coach Eddie Murphy. Overall in the team event they won 5 of their 9 matches and must be very pleased with that. They were seeded in 15th spot and finished up one in 14th position.

In the Final, Egypt beat Pakistan 2-1 (Pakistan had championship ball!) and Malaysia beat England 2-1 to finish 3rd..Germany and India finished in 5th. and 6th. place respectively.

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13-18 Place Round-Robin:
Ireland lost to U.S.A. 0-3:
Rory Byrne lost to Trevor McGuinness 9/0 9/7 9/0 [18 mins]
Chris O'Kane lost to Todd Harrity 9/2 9/1 9/6 [36 mins]
Conor O'Hare lost to Reed Endresen 9/6 9/0 9/1 [17 mins]

Ireland beat Zimbabwe 3-0:
Rory Byrne [17-32] (IRL) beat Deepesh Patel (ZIM) 9-0 7-9 7-9 9-5 9-1 [46mins]
Conor O'Hare (IRL) beat Ahmed Hassan (ZIM) 9-5 9-7 9-0 [21mins]
Chris O'Kane (IRL) beat Zardeen Wazir (ZIM) 10-8 9-2 9-3 [22mins]

Ireland beat New Zealand 2-1:
Rory Byrne [17-32] (IRL) beat Evan Williams [9-16] (NZL) 9-6 9-4 5-9 9-6 [44mins]
Josh Thom (NZL) beat Conor O'Hare(IRL) 9-2 9-0 9-2 [12mins]
Chris O'Kane(IRL) beat Christopher Lloyd (NZL) 9-5 10-8 9-1 [30mins]

Ireland beat Japan 2-1:
Rory Byrne [17-32] (IRL) beat Yuuta Fukui(JPN) 5-9 4-9 9-6 9-7 9-0 [45mins]
Conor O'Hare(IRL) beat Bumpei Kawano(JPN) 9-6 10-9 9-2 [48mins]
Shinnosuke Tsukue(JPN) beat Chris O'Kane(IRL) 9-2 9-0 9-5 [17mins]

Ireland beat Finland 3-0:
Rory Byrne [17-32] (IRL) beat Karri Salonen(FIN) 9-2 9-2 9-3 [16mins]
Conor O'Hare(IRL) beat Petteri Siren(FIN) 9-1 9-1 9-2 [23mins]
Chris O'Kane(IRL) beat Aatos Mannroos(FIN) 9-6 9-4 9-4 [26mins]

Pool B Matches:
Ireland, seeded 12 overall, began in Pool B behind Pakistan, India and South Africa and above Zimbabwe. On Monday they lost to Pakistan and India 3-0. On Tuesday they beat Zimbabwe 3-0 and lost to South Africa 2-1. In this tie, Rory Byrne won his match 3-2 and both Conor O'Hare and Chris O'Kane were well in with a chance, both losing 3-1. The full pool results can be viewed here.

Ireland beat Zimbabwe 3-0:
Rory Byrne [17-32] (IRL) beat Deepesh Patel(ZIM) 9-4 9-5 9-6 [36mins]
Conor O'Hare(IRL) beat Ahmed Hassan(ZIM) 9-2 9-6 7-9 9-2 [29mins]
Chris O'Kane(IRL) beat Ainsley Gannaway(ZIM) 9-1 9-0 9-2 [14mins]

South Africa beat Ireland 2-1:
Rory Byrne [17-32] (IRL) beat Richard Colburn(RSA) 7-9 9-7 1-9 9-3 9-1 [58mins]
Richard Dodd(RSA) beat Chris O'Kane(IRL) 9-1 7-9 9-5 9-5 [61mins]
Rudi Willemse (RSA) beat Conor O’Hare (IRL) 7-9 9-0 9-3 9-3

Pakistan beat Ireland 3-0:
Aamir Atlas Khan (PAK) beat Rory Byrne (IRL) 9-5 9-0 9-0 [18mins]
Yasir Butt (PAK) beat Conor O'Hare (IRL) 9-0 9-1 9-0 [14mins]
Farhan Mehboob (PAK) beat Chris O'Kane (IRL) 9-1 9-0 9-2 [20mins]

India beat Ireland 3-0
Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND) beat Rory Byrne (IRL) 9-4 4-9 9-1 9-3 [52mins]
Naresh Kumar (IND) beat Conor O'Hare (IRL) 9-1 9-5 9-4 [26mins]
Vikram Malhotra (IND) beat Chris O'Kane (IRL) 9-1 6-9 9-2 9-3 [42mins]

Individual Event:
Chris O'Kane won the Consolation Plate with a 9/3;9/4;9/7 win against Cameron Jamiesan (NZL). He beat Mathew Durda (AUS) 9/2;9/5;7/9;9/4 in their semi-final match. This followed wins over Luke Gorden (NZL) 9/4;9/0;9/2 and Luke Sims (AUS) 9/1;9/3;9/3.

In the quarter-finals proper, Rory Byrne lost to the top seed from Egypt, Ramy Mohamed Ashour 9/1;9/0;9/1. Ashour won this event two years ago and in winning this year's event against compatriot Omar Mossad 9/1;9/3;9/1 he became the first junior to have retained the title. Rory and Ashour are pictured below.

In the second series of matches Rory Byrne beat Edward Dromgool (NZ) 9/0;9/6;9/1, Conor O'Hare lost to Mohamed Reha (EGY) 9/1;9/0;9/3 and Chris O'Kane lost his plate match against J. Reed Endresen (USA) 5/9;6/9;4/9.

In the first round proper Rory Byrne (seeded 17/32) beat Joel Boman (AUS) 9/0;9/2;9/0; Conor O'Hare beat New Zealand's Lui Syder 9/7;2/9;9/5;9/1 and Chris O'Kane lost to the Swiss, Nicolas Mueller 0/9;0/9;4/9

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