This weekend the 2014 Home Internationals will be held in the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds and the RIBSA Teams will be travelling from Dublin Airport. It is very important everyone travelling must check in on ryanair web site and print off their boarding cards for both flights.
If any Junior has any problems with printing their boarding cards they should Contact Elayne Thorpe on 086 879 1031
The Republic of Ireland Masters & Senior players for the Home Internationals will meet up in Dublin Airport on Friday the 15th of August at 6am. PJ Nolan and Mark Tuite will waiting in Departures in Terminal 1 for the players.
The Junior players for the Home Internationals will meet up in Dublin Airport on Monday the 18th of August at 6pm and James Bateman will waiting in Departures in Terminal 1 for the players and parents.
Each player must wear a RIBSA polo shirt when travelling if they have one. Each player must and bring a bow-tie, Irish Waistcoat, Black & White long sleeve shirt. Black Pants and Black shoes.
A few points I want to bring to your attention about the 2014 Home Internationals.
- 1. Referees meeting on Friday 15/08/2014 at 19:00
- 2. Managers meeting on Friday 15/08/2014 at 19:30
- Both of these meetings will be held upstairs in the Northern Snooker Centre.
- 3. Opening ceremony on Friday 15/08/2014 at 20:00 again upstairs in the NSC
- 4. Closing ceremony after the last matches are completed on Monday 18/08/2014 and also on Thursday 21/08/2014.
- 5. The Match table in the centre of the club will be used in all sessions so you are free to select who will play on this table and you will make them your number 1 player when you hand in your list of players for each session.
- 6. It was agreed at this year’s AGM that players will not be allowed to take Alcoholic Drink to the table when they are due to play, so please stress this to all your players before we start. If anyone takes a drink to the table it will be confiscated and the referees will be asked to enforce this with the tournament team’s backing.
- 7. Every bit of bad news should be followed by some good news and this is no exception as the Bar in the club will be kept open until 1:30am for the Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
- 8. The club will run a flyer every night limited to the first 32 players from Saturday to Wednesday inclusive.
- 9. Just to remind everyone please remember to bring essential mug, plates, spoons etc if you are going to eat in the apartment.
