Sourav Kothari from India won the 2026 IBSF World Billiards (Timed) Championship in the Snooker & Billiards Ireland Academy of Excellence in Carlow. After an electrifying week of top class Billiards in Ireland, at the IBSF World Billiards Championship. Defending his crown he won in 2025 in style, Sourav Kothari from India once again emerged

David Causier defeated Mike Russell 8-5 at the SBI Academy in Carlow, Ireland to win the World Matchplay Championship for a sixth successive time. Results Victory on the Emerald Isle saw Causier retain World Billiards’ second biggest title for a sixth staging in a row – having previously earned glory in 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024

The IBSF is pleased to announce the groups of the 2026 IBSF World Billiards Championship which will be played from April 24 to 29, 2026, in the SBI academy in Carlow, Ireland. We thank Snooker and Billiards Ireland for hosting this prestigious event in their world class academy. CLICK – Festival of Billiards Programme 2026

The SBI Academy in Carlow (Snooker & Billiards Ireland HQ) once again plays host to the Macau Casino World Matchplay Billiards Championship, our second level 6 event of the season, which is taking place in April. We are also pleased to confirm that both Macau Casino and Sammin Engineering have continued their sponsorship of the

On the 15th of March SBI played our short format championship down to the final. Where Wayne Doyle will face off against Aidan Murray at finals weekend. First round matches seen wins for Lloyd myers against our youngest and improving player Ciaran Doyle, Brendan devlin had a comfortable win over Annette Newman, the last 2

Today Wayne Doyle defeated 8 times Irish champion Eugene Hughes in the final of senior billiard ranking event 6, The first round seen a total of 8 matches been played, Wayne started the day in good form against Tommy Murphy with breaks of 148 the days highest break with a magnificent 258 and a string

On Sunday 15th February in the SBI Academy in Carlow,  Aidan Murray won his first ranking event of the season after beating Wayne Doyle in the final First round matches in the top half of the draw seen John Downey beat Robert mc Crum in a close match with Robert recording a 49 break in

The Sixth SBI Billiards Event of the season will be played Sunday the 22nd February in Newbridge CYMS with all of the top players in action. Action will start at 10am. Entry is now open to enter – CLICK HERE Information on Billards This season will be holding six ranking events and two National Championships. Dates

The Timmy Murphy Memorial handicap tournament was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 11th of January 2026. After a day’s play, which saw many interesting games and several surprise results, the trophy went to Wayne Doyle (Dun Laoghaire), a fitting reward for the consistently high standard of play with which he dominated the day.