Editing Ken Doherty (section)

==Personal life==
Doherty married Sarah, who is originally from India, in December 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Collins |first1=Sophie |last2=Whelan |first2=Vincent |date=2022-05-09 |title=Inside Ken Doherty's family life - days out with son and split from partner |url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/other-sport/snooker/inside-ken-dohertys-family-life-26918386 |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=[[Irish Mirror]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sunderland |first=Tom |date=2022-05-08 |title=Snooker legend Ken Doherty confirms he is no longer with wife as they share son |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/snooker/ken-doherty-son-wife-split-26907663 |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=The Mirror |language=en}}</ref> The couple resided in [[Rathgar]], Dublin, and have a son, born in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 January 2008 |title=Doherty not bothered by 'sleepless nights' |url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/snooker/2008/0117/226923-dohertyk |access-date=13 January 2020 |via=www.rte.ie}}</ref> In 2022, Doherty revealed that he and his wife had separated amicably.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pownall |first=Sylvia |date=8 May 2022 |title=Snooker legend Ken Doherty no longer with wife Sarah but says pair get on well for son |url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/other-sport/snooker/snooker-legend-ken-doherty-no-26904043 |publisher=Irish Sunday Mirror}}</ref> He now lives in England.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Keenan |first=Mark |date=10 June 2022 |title='I fell in love with the house as soon as I saw that Virginia creeper' – snooker star Ken Doherty is saying farewell to his €2.5m home in Dublin 6 |url=https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/i-fell-in-love-with-the-house-as-soon-as-i-saw-that-virginia-creeper-snooker-star-ken-doherty-is-saying-farewell-to-his-25m-home-in-dublin-6-41737967.html |work=The Irish Independent}}</ref>

Doherty was nearly blinded in 2002 in a bathroom accident; after slipping, he struck an ornament, which narrowly missed his left eye. However, the distinctive scar on his right cheek dates back to his seventh birthday, when he fell off a shed roof onto a metal dustbin.<ref name="DohertyRanelaghman">{{Cite news |last=Gilleece |first=Dermot |date=6 May 1997 |title=Ranelagh man at home with himself, his scar and old cue |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/ranelagh-man-at-home-with-himself-his-scar-and-old-cue-1.69545 |work=The Irish Times}}</ref>

Doherty and his family are of [[Roman Catholic]] faith, with his mother, Rose usually praying while Ken was playing matches.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

In May 2007, Doherty appeared on RTÉ's spoof show ''[[Anonymous (TV series)|Anonymous]]'', heavily disguised as a priest.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 May 2007 |title=World snooker ace Ken Doherty has to convince Ranelagh folk and Alex Higgins that he is a novice at snooker and a parish |url=https://presspack.rte.ie/2007/05/21/anonymous-9 |work=RTÉ}}</ref> Ostensibly he was a beginner at snooker and received some tips from [[Alex Higgins]], who was initially fooled by the make-up and Doherty's hopeless play. However, as "Fr Donoghue" began to clear the table, Higgins' suspicions were aroused and Doherty was eventually rumbled. Doherty's disguise was enough to fool his mother and his wife.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 May 2007 |title=I had no CUE It was you; HIGGINS SNOOKERED BY DOHERTY'S DISGUISE. |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/I+had+no+CUE+It+was+you%3b+HIGGINS+SNOOKERED+BY+DOHERTY%27S+DISGUISE.-a0163618769 |publisher=Sunday Mirror; archived by The Free Library}}</ref> In 2020, Doherty made a cameo appearance along with [[Jack Lisowski]] and [[Liang Wenbo]] in the snooker movie ''[[Break (2020 film)|Break]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 November 2020 |title=Watch Break – The Movie |url=https://wst.tv/break-the-movie |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808235004/https://wst.tv/break-the-movie/ |archive-date=8 August 2020 |publisher=World Snooker Tour}}</ref>

Doherty has been a WPBSA player director since 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 December 2018 |title=Ferguson and Doherty re-elected as WPBSA directors at AGM |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1073428/ferguson-and-doherty-re-elected-as-wpbsa-directors-at-agm |access-date=13 January 2020 |website=www.insidethegames.biz}}</ref>