PJ Coaching Workshop in Belgium

Last weekend our National Coach PJ Nolan held another coaching workshop in the Le Safety Snooker Club in Chatelet in Belgium. This weekend was very special as the club was officially opened as the Sandrine Vlamynck Snooker Room in memory of the French number 1 lady player Sandrine Vlamynck who died earlier this year. The

PJ Coaching Workshop in India

This week our National Coach PJ Nolan was invited to India to hold two snooker coaching workshops in the magical city of Mumbai and Pune. Twenty-one players in total attended each week long training course to improve their game which was organised by Fellow World Snooker Coach Derek Sippy and the Billiards & Snooker Association

Israeli Shahar Camp with PJ

This week 16 year Shahar Davidovitch from Israel travelled to Carlow for a week long training camp in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club with our National Coach PJ Nolan. Shahar was impressed with my the Ivy Rooms as a great training academy and with the quality of coaching he received during the camp. Despite only

Successful RIBSA Training Camp

The Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association held a training camp with leading professional player Fergal O Brien and World Snooker Coach PJ Nolan in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Saturday to prepare the players for the 2012 Home Internationals. The Home Internationals is being held in Pontins North Wales from
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Home Internationals Training Weekend

On the weekend of Saturday and Sunday the 1st & 2nd of September RIBSA will be holding a training camp in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow to prepare our teams for this year’s Home Internationals which will be played from the 7th – 14th of September. This year leading Irish professional snooker player
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World Under 21’s Training Day

The World Under 21 Snooker Championship will be held next month in Wuxi in the Republic Of China from the 14th – 22nd Of July. RIBSA organised a training a day with our National Coach PJ Nolan to prepare the players for the Championship on Sunday in the Ivy Rooms SC Carlow. Karl Fitzpatrick, Ryan
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Celtic Challenge Training Day

The R.I.B.S.A. 2012 Celtic Challenge Junior Team had a training day with our National Coach PJ Nolan in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Saturday. Andrew Doherty, Charlie Sweeney, Fergal Quinn, James Hurley, Corey Ramsbottom, Darragh Cusack and Stephen Bateman underwent specific cue ball control training in attempting to improve their break building

E.B.S.A. Coaching Clinic

Our National Coach PJ Nolan held an EBSA Coaching Clinic at 2012 European Snooker Championship in Latvia today. Current EBSA head Coach PJ Nolan, David Vaitzman ( Israel ), Alex Borg (Malta) and Stephane Ochoiski from France trained various players from all around Europe where coaching is not widely available in their own countries. PJ

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

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