Win 2 free tickets to see Snooker Star Jimmy White playing live at the Youghal CYMS this Sunday 15th March. Jimmy will be playing exhibition matches against the cream of the Youghal CYMS Senior and Junior snooker players starting at 7pm.

The event will be recorded and a DVD of the snooker exhibition will be available of this fantastic show the following week. All you have to do is name Jimmy’s NICKNAME?  E-mail your answer to news@youghalonline.com The competition is free and there are no charges. Either of Jimmy’s two nicknames will be accepted. The winning tickets may be collected at the door on the night so please leave a contact number. The competition closes at 4pm Saturday 14th March ’09 so get your entries in fast! The winner will be announced at the Youghal CYMS premises, Market Sq, Youghal this Sat. at 5pm. The lucky winner will be posted on this site immediately afterwards.  Best of luck to all the entries!
Jimmy White. Nicknamed the “Whirlwind” (and occasionally the “People’s Champion”), White is a multiple World Snooker Championship finalist. He has been a professional since 1980, the year in which he won the World Amateur title.
Often referred to as “the best player to never have won the World Snooker Championship”, the charismatic Jimmy White has endured the heartache of finishing runner-up at the Crucible no fewer than six times, four times to Stephen Hendry and once each to Steve Davis and John Parrott.

But the ‘Whirlwind’ remains a firm favourite with the fans and is fondly known as the “People’s Champion”. He is the most popular of all the players because of his great natural talent, his flamboyant style and his great sportsmanship.
Ever the sporting type, White’s reaction to losing a fourth consecutive final at the Crucible was to announce that Stephen Hendry was “beginning to annoy” him

It was perhaps a measure of Jimmy’s enduring popularity that his quarter-final tie against Ronnie O’Sullivan in the 2002 B&H Masters at Wembley – on a Friday afternoon – attracted the biggest audience at the venue, for a match other than the final, for more than 20 years.