Irish Trio Await Last 48 Draw

The Irish Trio of Rodney Goggins, Brendan O’Donoghue and Mark Tuite have safely navigated the group stages of the IBSF World Championships out in India over the last three days and now wait to see who they will face in the knockout stages.  Both Rodney and Brendan won their respective matches today to make sure
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IBSF World Championships

The IBSF World Snooker Championship is being held in the Billiard Hall of Karnataka State Billiards Association (KSBA), Bangalore, India from November 28 to December 03. CLICK LIVE SCORING Rodney Goggins, Mark Tuite and Brendan O Donoghue are performing good with a number of good wins in their group matches in the Championships. Rodney Goggins is in
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PJ Nolan

Rebel Snooker Week 10

EVEN at this early stage, Youghal CYMS ‘A’ have virtually booked their place in the League semi finals with yet another awesome league display, making it nine wins out of nine and a whopping 22 points hauled in so far in a perfect start to the 2011/2012 campaign. Also unbeaten so far are the Crucible
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Boileau Wins Under 21 Ranking 2

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 arourd the country playing in the event. Josh Boileau from Newbridge CYMS won the event in beating David Cassidy from the Crucible SC in Cork in the
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Myers Wins Intermediate Billiards

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
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Cassidy Wins Under 19 Event 2

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
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Munster Club Championships

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
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Gleeson wins again in Carlow

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
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Derek Kiely

Rebel Snooker Week 9

WEEK Eight of the Cork Billiards and Snooker Association (CBSA) Cork snooker league threw up some predictable results and one sensational match between the AOH and the Crucible, where only a victory of the narrowest of margins kept the Crucible on a 100% win ratio. The game between the AOH and the Crucible was played
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Our Deepest Sympathy

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