The second RIBSA Under 21 ranking event of the season was held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday with all the top U-21 players from all around the country playing in the event. Josh Boileau from Newbridge CYMS won the event in beating David Cassidy from the Crucible SC in Cork
Lloyd Myers won the third RIBSA Intermediate ranking event of the season was played in the Ivy Rooms SC in Carlow on Sunday. In the final he beat James Bateman 400-316 in a great final In the semi finals James Bateman beat Brendan Devlin and Lloyd Myers beat Liam Byrne. Q-Final Robert McCrum 325-400 Brendan
The second RIBSA under 19 ranking event of the season was held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Saturday 26th November. David Cassidy from Cork won the final with breaks of 46, 32, 55 and 30 in the beating clubmate Ryan Cronin from Cork who had 68, 38 and 46 in an superb final 3 frames
The 2012 Munster Club Championships will take place on the last weekend in January with 24 teams expected to take part again this year down in the Gleneagle Hotel. As usual the organisers will be holding a meeting on the 5th of December in the Wagon Tavern Pub in Fermoy at 8pm to finalise the
It was an all Tipperary affair in Carlow for the final of the 3rd Masters event with Nenagh’s Tommy Gleeson just edging out Thurles player Ger Delaney by three frames to two in a superb final on Sunday. No.1 seed Gleeson had played some great snooker all day with 3-0 wins over Cork’s Derek O’Neill
Everyone involved within the Snooker Family would like to send their condolences to the family of Declan Waters from Wexford who died this week. Declan represented the 147 Snooker Club in Wexford in many RIBSA events over the years. The Republic Of Ireland Billiards and Snooker Association send their deepest Sympathies to the Waters Family
Andrew Doherty from Terenure Sports Club in Dublin won his second under 16 ranking event of the season in Newbridge CYMS on Sunday. In the final Andrew beat Ross Doyle from Dublin 3 frames to 1 in a repeat of the first ranking final earlier this season. The semi finals saw Ross beat Stephen Bateman
Michael Woods from Dublin won the second Under 14 ranking event of the season in Newbridge CYMS over the weekend. In the final Michael beat Charlie Sweeney from Newbridge CYMS 2 frames to nil in a superb final. Michael beat Eamon Harkin from Letterkenny 2 -1 in one semi final and Charlie beat Darragh Cusack from Dublin
This weekend the N.Ireland Billiards Association held the 4 Nations Billiards Tournament in Celbridge Snooker Club. The International committee extended a warm and sporting welcome to all players and officials to Celbridge Co. Kildare. The event was won overall by England who scored 58 points overall over the two days, followed by Northern Ireland 37, Republic of
The 147 Snooker Club in the main street Wexford is the next club to be visited by PJ Nolan in his journey around the country. Club owner Tommy Leacy met with our National Coach this week and showed him around the club. The club opens Monday – Saturday 12 noon – to late and on