Clubs Practice Night in Ivy Rooms

Last night in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow four teams were putting in early practice for the Leinster and Munster Club Snooker Championships. Kilkenny, Waterford, 147 Wexford and New Institute Nenagh organised a training night to help the teams prepare for their upcoming Club Championships. It was a great night of play with

Sherwin wins Ladies Event 2

The second RIBSA ranking event of the year was held in Breakers,Gorey on Sunday 17th Nov. There were 7 entries. Q-final 1 seen Claire Mill taking on 14 year old newcomer Emirjeta Doda. Emirjeta was solid and showed why she will be a force to be reckoned with in the future, by pulling off some

PJ Coaching Tour around Austria

Last week our National Coach PJ Nolan travelled to three different cities in Austria to hold Snooker & Billiards Coaching Zones. First he was in Vienna to train the Austrian National Billiards team for the upcoming four Nations Billiards Championship in the newly opened Austrian Academy. The Austrian Association organised the two day billiards camp

The 2013 Four Nations Billiards Results

England won the Nations Billiards Championship last weekend in Vienna and the event was hailed a great success featuring teams from Ireland, England and Northern Ireland and Host country Austria. The full Tournaments points were England 60pts, Republic Of Ireland 35pts, Northern Ireland 32pts and Austria with 17pts. This year’s event was played in the newly

RIBSA Honour Mark & Anthony on their European Win

This week RIBSA made a special presentation to Mark Tuite & Anthony Bonnar on their magnificent win after they won the (EBSA) European Team Championships in Serbia earlier this year. The framed presentation awards contained a copy of the official Match Sheets from the European Final along with Photos of their memorable win. Jim Leacy Chairman

Gleeson wins Masters Ranking Event 4

Tom Gleeson from Nenagh won the fourth RIBSA Masters Ranking event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow today. In the final he beat current No.1 Nigel Power from Celbridge 3 frames to 0 in a magnificent performance on the day. Tom also made the highest break of the tournament when

242 cueists for IBSF World Championships

242 cueists from 51 countries must all be making last minute preparations as the 2013 IBSF World Snooker Championship gets closer and closer. The mega event is to begin November 27th at the awesome Daugavpils Olympic Sports Center in the picturesque city of Daugavpils, Latvia and will finish on December 8th. Of the 242 players

Doyle Wins Senior Billiards event 3

The third tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 10th of November 2013. Wayne Doyle (Dun Laoghaire), having been to every final of the season so far, more than justified his No 1 position in the rankings by taking the event’s honours in a scintillating display of high

Crucible SC Cue Zone with PJ

Last week our National Coach PJ Nolan held a Snooker Cue Zone in the Crucible Snooker Club in Cork City. Among the players whom attended varied from Current Irish Junior International to the new up and coming Juniors who will represent their club in the Munster Championships in Killarney this year. The Crucible was recently

McCrudden Wins Premier Tour N0.2

The 2nd event of the Premier Tour “The RIBSA Irish Open” was played today Sunday 10th November 2013 at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. The highlight of the early rounds was last 32 match between current no. 1 on the rankings Rodney Goggins and Martin McCrudden. Playing solidly Rodney won the first two frames, but