Joe Delaney (snooker player)
| Born | 4 August 1972 |
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| Sport country |
 Ireland
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| Professional | 1991–1997, 1998/1999, 2000/2001, 2003–2011 |
| Highest ranking | 58 (2007/2008) |
| Career winnings | GB£106,957 |
| Highest break | 132 (2007 UK Championship qualifying) |
| Century breaks | 18 |
| Best ranking finish | Last 32 (2007 World Championship, 2010 Shanghai Masters) |
Joe Delaney, (born 4 August 1972 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish former professional snooker player.
Born in 1972, Delaney turned professional in 1991. He endured several barren seasons on the tour before losing his place in 1997, but re-qualified during the 1997/1998 season, notably reaching the last 48 stage of the 1998 World Championship. There, he beat seven opponents, including Michael Holt, Munraj Pal, Jamie Burnett and Gary Ponting, before losing 7–10 to Dave Harold.
In his first season back on the tour, Delaney won the majority of his matches, but progressed only to the last 96 at a ranking event - the 1998 Grand Prix, where the declining Steve James beat him 5–2.
Having competed for another several seasons as an amateur, Delaney reached the final of a Challenge Tour event in 2003, defeating Paul McPhillips and Joe Jogia alongside five others, before losing 3–6 to Lee Spick. This performance was not enough for him to re-qualify, but the following season heralded runs to the last 16 at another Challenge Tour event - losing 1–5 to Cypriot Mehmet Husnu - and the fifth qualifying round at the 2003 World Championship, where Gary Hardiman beat him 5–3. These results did earn Delaney a place on the main tour for the 2003/2004 season.
The following three seasons were without any significant progress, but Delaney enjoyed better form in 2006/2007. He reached the last 48 at the 2006 UK Championship, defeating Andrew Higginson 9–5 and fellow Irishman Fergal O'Brien 9–7 before losing to Northern Ireland's Joe Swail, also 9–7. The 2007 Welsh Open, in which Higginson would reach the final as an amateur, heralded a 5–3 victory over Spick and a 5–4 defeat of Marcus Campbell, but Delaney lost in the last 48, 0–5 to Stuart Bingham.
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