John McConnell BEM and his wife, Kath Mc Connell, were among the special guests at the 40th anniversary celebration of the iconic 1985 ...

FOR many, snooker’s golden era was the 1980s. Steve Davis’ six World Championship titles, the emergence of Jimmy White and ...

In the other, the guy with the upside-down glasses. The result was a world snooker final – which concluded in the early hours of April 29, 1985 – that would ring through the ages as Northern Ireland’s ...

For a moment in the mid-1980s snooker ruled the world. The 1985 World Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor is usually seen as the high watermark, with 18 million viewers rapt by ...