FORMER Bradford snooker champion Brian Mullaney has died aged 73.
He won the title in 1986 and created history as his brother Tommy took the Bradford billiards that year – the first time that siblings had held the crowns at the same time.
Mullaney, who died in the Marie Curie Hospice in Bradford, also won the city’s billiards championship in 1994 and 2001.
This means that Colin is now the sole survivor of the 11 Mullaney siblings – five sons and six daughters, some of whom went to Australia as £10 Poms.
Brian’s funeral is at St Peter’s Church on Allerton Road tomorrow (10am), followed by a service at Scholemoor Crematorium at 11am, with a gathering afterwards at West Bradford Bowling Club on Duckworth Lane.




