WATCH: Right on cue, Offaly boy who shot to fame at three is back at the table

HE'S back! Adam Wynne, the snooker and pool prodigy who shot to fame when he was only three, is back at the table after a four-year break.

Videos of the Tullamore toddler's prowess with the cue went viral back in 2015, resulting in appearances on the Late Late Show, German television, and then, when he was six, the American show Little Big Shots.

Adam flew to Los Angeles five years ago with his father Sean for the hit series, which is co-produced by Ellen DeGeneres.

Millions of viewers then saw him impress host Steve Harvey by effortlessly potting ball after ball.

Little Big Shots is a variety show featuring the talents of kids and it has grown to become the most popular programme of its kind, with versions now being aired in other countries.

Sean believes Adam was the only Irish person ever to feature on an American episode.

This week Sean repeated what his son said to him that day after the shoot was over: “I'm at the top, I've nothing to prove to no one. I'm finished.”

WATCH: Adam Wynne shows his skills on the Late Late Show with his father Sean and uncle Bernard Westman

While Adam took a break from the activities which catapulted him to international attention, his father, a talented pool player himself who has represented Ireland, opened the Cue Academy hall in Tullamore.

His wife Elaine sourced the building on Church Street and Sean used his carpentry skills to convert it to what is recognised as one of the country's top venues.

Adam helped out at the Cue Academy, with tasks like operating the till and sweeping, and then one day over a year ago Sean noticed him looking in at the tables.

“I said 'What's wrong with you?' and he goes: 'I'm ready',” said Sean. “I said 'For what' and he said 'I'm ready to be what I was born to be'.”

Adam asked his father to ring PJ Nolan, a leading Irish-based snooker coach who was one of many who had seen the child a few years earlier.

“I rang PJ and he said [he'd] been waiting four years for this phone call.”

Sean added: “He went back and it was kind of crazy because he had to learn how to play all over again because he's got so tall so his cue action [had to change from] the way he used to hold the cue. He had to learn to play properly.”

After overcoming the initial challenges, Adam started playing competitive pool and after being beaten in a national singles final, he returned a year later to win the Irish Pool Under 12 title at the Gleneagle INEC Arena, Killarney.

He played in six Irish Pool Association ranking events, reached the final in each one, and won four of them.

Adam has also returned to snooker and reached the final of the Irish Under 12 championships where he was beaten by a boy who has become his friend and rival, Liam Dunne from Edenderry.

Sean says it is up to Adam whether he keeps up his interest in the game this time.

“We'd have no interest in forcing anybody to do anything,” he said. “He has a serious love for the game. Whereas if we had kept him going, maybe he'd never play again. But now he's back, he's loving it.”

Recently people got a chance to see Adam's skills up close once again when he played against Dennis Taylor when the 1985 World Snooker champion made a special appearance at the Lantern in Tullamore.

Taylor won what is regarded as the greatest world final of all time, a black ball triumph over Steve Davis, but Adam was nonetheless a match for him over one frame of pool.

While professional snooker was the glamour game across the world in the 1980s and 1990s, pool has experienced an upsurge in recent years with the big tournaments now also screened live.

“People have asked me for the last seven or eight years, do you think he's going to be a world champion,” said Sean.

“I've always said, do I want him to be? It's a very tough life.”

Sean has played for and captained both Offaly and Ireland in pool and has seen how the top pro players live.

“I see people living in hotels, trying to make a living. Is that what I want for Adam? Genuinely, no. But if it's something that he wants to do, I'll back him.”

Added Sean: “The crazy thing is he's still only 11. Most players only start at this age.”

Adam's ability to play under pressure is something which might set him apart if he continues. In the all Ireland pool final he came from 2-0 down to win.

At the Under 12 championships run by Snooker & Billiards Ireland in Carlow one of Adam's shots was named joint shot of the tournament.

A pupil at Coolanarney National School, he has two older teenage sisters, Kelly and Emma, and they enjoy going away to tournaments with him.

“Adam would be very modest, he wouldn't tell anyone anything. He didn't even tell the teachers he was going to the all Ireland championship, I had to go in and tell them,” his father remarked.