Tobin wins Intermediate 2 in Cork

Aaron Tobin from Youghal CYMS won the 2nd Intermediate tournament of the season at the Crucible Snooker club in Cork city on Sunday 26th October. Aaron played fantastic snooker all day including knocking in the high break of 55 in his quarter-final. Aaron played excellent match snooker in the final overcoming Cathal Gordon from the

Boileau Wins U-21 Ranking Event 1

Josh Boileau from Newbridge CYMS won the first RIBSA Under 21 Snooker Ranking event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Saturday the 25th of October. In the final Josh beat Aaron Tobin from Youghal 4 frames to 3 in an exciting final. The high break also went to Josh

Senior Ranking Event 2 – Ivy Rooms – ENTER NOW

The second RIBSA Senior Ranking event of the season will be held on Saturday the 8th of November in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. You can now text your entry to 085 2428701. This is a text number only and you must include your name, club and event you want to enter. The

2014 World Billiards Championships Leeds

Good luck to the RIBSA players who are participating in the 2014 World Billiards Championship from 20th – 29th October 2014. The Championship will be held in the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds in the UK. Wayne Doyle, Aidan Murray, Larry Drennan and Ross Doyle will be playing for Ireland in the Championships. COME ON

Landers Wins RIBSA U16 Ranking Event 1

Noel Landers from Youghal CYMS defeated Aaron Goldrick 3-0 in the final of today’s first RIBSA U16 ranking event of the season in CrossGuns in Dublin. A total of 21 entries including three members of the Rep Of Ireland junior international team battled it out for the winners trophy and the all important ranking points.

RIBSA 2 Day Camp for IBSF Championships

Our National Snooker Coach PJ Nolan held a successful two day RIBSA training camp in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow this week on the 15th & 16th of October to prepare our RIBSA players for the 2014 World IBSF Snooker Championship which takes place in Bangalore, India from the 17th – 30th November.

Draw for two tickets to watch Legends Cup

RIBSA will be having a fund raising draw for two VIP tickets to watch the Legends Cup on the Monday night session on the 29th of December in Goffs County Kildare. The tickets have been given to RIBSA by Fergal O Brien and the Draw will take place in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club on

RIBSA EGM – Motions Carried

The RIBSA EGM to discuss and vote on the motions listed below was held at 6pm during Senior Ranking Event 1 at the North West SC in Letterkenny on Saturday the 11th of October. The meeting was attended by 29 members. Both items were discussed with contributions from many in attendance. The votes were as

Gilcreest Wins RIBSA Masters Event 1

The first of this year’s Masters Snooker tournament’s took place this weekend in Letterkenny.  There were 14 competitors on the day and the wild card danger man in the first round was the un-seeded Colm Gilcreest who defeated Shane Gorman to continue to the Quarter finals.  All the other seeds were successful in their first

Goggins Wins RIBSA Senior Event 1

The first Senior Ranking Points Tournament of the season was held at the North West Snooker Club this weekend. The club is celebrating being open 30 years this October and was delighted to welcome some of the best players from around the country. There was a great turnout to the occasion with 48 players registering