A report on the Irish Championship 1995 has been added to the tournament pages here.
Brian Kelly became the youngest ever Irish champion, at about 16 years, 8 months, beating the previous record set by John Moles, who was 16 years and (a little less than) 10 months old when he won in 1966. (Previous record? Porterfield Rynd, born April 6, 1846, who won the first Irish championship in November 1865.) A loss to Gerard O’Connell in round 4 was the only blemish on an otherwise dominating performance, in which he won 6 of his first 7 games, then drew the last two to win the title by a clear point.
All but 2 of the 114 games are available. Here is one interesting moment.
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This is a “Black to play and win” problem. As it turned out, it was an “almost brilliancy”: O’Shaughnessy played the next eight moves flawlessly, but then faltered and had to settle for a perpetual check. Can you do better?