| Notes |
| Key |
In "Pairings & results", - "age" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year (even if the birthday fell after the event)
- "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
- "ol" denotes members of the previous Olympiad team (Turin 2006)
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
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| Débuts and final appearances |
Of the Irish players, Baburin and Benson made their Irish championship débuts; Justin Daly, Jeffares, Stephen Short and Uí Laighléis never played again. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 2008 list.
- ICU ratings are from the May 2008 list
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| Norms |
Colm Daly missed an IM norm by 1 point (needed to win last round as Black versus Stephen Jessel, but lost). |
| Versions |
- v1.0 (22 Dec 2014): first published version
- v1.1 (8 Oct 2015): corrected club affiliations for Colm Daly, John Loughran, and Liam Porter, and added affiliation for Manuel Weeks; added link to annotation from playable game for P. Short – Butnorius; added player ages; removed tpr*; corrected openings index; sundry minor formatting changes
- v1.2 (27 Sep 2016): modified format
- v1.3 (27 May 2017): added missing accents in player names in 3 playable games; added number of championships played for each player
- v1.4 (29 Jan 2019): modified layout of playable games and added extra indexing information in playable game files
- v1.5 (13 Mar 2019): corrected Round and Date of Porter - Doyle, round 6 ("5" → "6"; "2008.07.09" → "2008.07.10"); added hyphen to "Griffiths, Ryan-Rhys" and deleted FullName tags in pgn file; corrected typos
- v1.6 (2 Mar 2021): added entry on "Prize fund", modified link to sponsor's web site, and added URL for Venue in Information → Basic data → Sponsor; corrected link to report in Sources and notes → Sources → ICU web site (link previously went to news item on 2012 championship); changed dead link to ChessLeague.net to LCU web pages in Sources and notes → Sources; added Newspapers in Sources and notes → Sources; added reference to annotation in Greenfeld - Redmond, round 9, and added to Annotations index; added link to Colm Daly's round by round commentary at IrishChessChampionships.com; added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; added numbers of championships played for Griffiths, Uí Laighléis, and Weeks (previously inadvertently omitted) in Pairings & results; added light notes to Boyle - Benson, round 4, and added to Annotations index; added note on loss on time in Conquest - Butnorius, round 4 (based on Colm Daly report); modified link to tournament report from playable games; modified URLs to change from http to https where possible and to eliminate redirects
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| Contributors |
Seán Coffey |