Senior Billiards Championships 2012

The Senior Billiards Championships was played down to the semi-finals to-day 29th April in the Ivy Rooms The line-up for the finals weekend in Letterkenny is Larry Drennan v Aidan Murray and Rodney Goggins v Eugene Hughes. A total of 12 players contested the event, which meant that byes were awarded into the quarter finals

Who will win the Championships?

Rodney Goggins has been in superb form this season winning two of the seven ranking events played to date and never being out of the semi finals all season. He is virtually guaranteed the No.1 spot already sitting 130 points above his nearest rival Joe Delaney.  With the Main Tour spot now gone perhaps the
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Under 16 National Championship

ADAM FITZGERALD AND CHRISTOPHER DUFFY FOR U-16’s FINAL – 16 players contested the National U-16 Championships in the Ivy Rooms to-day 28th April.  Adam Fitzgerald beat local lad James Hurley in the first round and then took on the No. 1 seed Andrew Doherty beating him 2-0 and then beat Ross Doyle 2-0 to earn

National U-14 Championships

FERGAL QUINN AND NOEL LAUNDERS FOR THE FINAL National U-14 Championship was held to-day 28th April in the Ivy Rooms. It attracted an entry of 18 very talented young players. The tournament to-day played down to the final which will be contested by   between Fergal Quinn from Cookstown and Noel Launders from Youghal at the Finals Weekend in

Tuite wins Cork Open

Mark Tuite from Killarney was crowned Shooters ‘Cork Open Snooker Champion’ at Shooters snooker club in the ‘Sunbeam Industrial Park’ Blackpool today. What was noticable last weekend was the large high quality of top class players who entered was a clear indication of how prestigious this title was. Chairman of the ‘Cork Billiards and Snooker
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PJ in the World Snooker Cue Zone

Irishman PJ Nolan an official world snooker coach was invited by World Snooker to coach in the cue zone at the on Saturday, Sunday and Monday 21st – 23rd at this year’s world championship in the Crucible in Sheffield. The cue zone was held beside the BBC TV Studio with Hazel Irvine, Steve Davis, John

RIBSA AGM 2012

This year,  the Republic of Ireland Billiards and Snooker Association’s AGM will be held in Sport HQ, Joyce Way, Parkwest, Dublin 12 on Saturday 19th May at 2pm. Nominations for a position on the board of RIBSA will be taken from the floor on the day. All Motions for this year’s AGM must be received

147 Wexford Flyer

The 147 Club in Wexford is under new management and will be running a 16 man one day flyer down in the club on Tuesday the 1st of May (11am start). The event is been run by Abban Reddy along with Rodney Goggins and is open to anyone. All Matches will be the Best of
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Tierney and Yeates qualify for Intermediate Final

Andrew Yeates from the Royal Snooker Club in Navan and George Tierney from the Roadstone Club in Dublin have qualified to meet in the final of the Irish intermediate championship at the finals weekend in Letterkenny on the 26th and 27th May. The Championship was played in excellent conditions at Celbridge Snooker Club at the

PJ Coaching in Dubai

Last week our National coach PJ Nolan an official world snooker coach travelled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to coach the national snooker team in preparation for the upcoming Asian championship which will be held in Qatar later this month. The current Irish and EBSA head coach was booked by the United Arab