The National Billiards Long-up Championships, preliminary rounds down to the last two, took place at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 16th April 2017. A total of 8 players contested the event, which meant effectively that only two rounds were played, the quarter finals and the semis. The quarter finals in the top

The National Billiards Championships, preliminary rounds down to the last two, took place at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 26th March 2017. A total of 10 players contested the event, which meant that the top four seeded players were awarded byes into the quarter finals. First round Eliminations were Brendan Devlin (Celbridge), after a tough

James Bateman, Kilkenny and John Kehoe, Enniscorthy will contest the final of the Intermediate Billiards 150up Championship in May Weekend 5th – 7th May after the qualifying championship was played in the Ivy Rooms SC on Sunday the 12th of March. RIBSA would like thank all the players and the Ivy Rooms SC for hosting

The annual Billiards International North-South Challenge Tournament took place at the Premier Snooker Club, Glengormley on Saturday and Sunday, 22nd and 23rd April 2017.  The format of the event was that each team of eight was divided into two groups of four, so that each player met four opponents from his corresponding group, with the

The 2017 Annual North-South Billiards Challenge will take place at Glengormley Northern Ireland on Saturday and Sunday the 22nd and 23rd of April. The Irish team is Joe Doheny, Wayne Doyle, Robert McCrum, Ross Doyle, John Kehoe, Larry Drennan, Aidan Murray and Aonghus McNally. The team Manager is Brendan Devlin The event promises to be

The sixth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 26th of February 2017, the format being 90 minutes timed (all rounds). Aidan Murray, having made a slow start to the season, bowing out in the early stages of the first two rounds, then recovered by

The fifth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 5th of February 2017, the format being 400up with a 90 minute time limit. Wayne Doyle (Q-Club Wicklow), perhaps smarting from his semi final defeat in the previous tournament, was clearly in no humour to tolerate anything like a

The fourth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 8th of January 2017, the format being best of three games of 150up. Eugene Hughes (Baltinglass) having opened his season in emphatic style, started the new year in similar fashion, taking all his matches, including the Final, without dropping

The All-Ireland Billiards Championship, which has not been held since 2009, was revived as an additional feature match during the 2016 Four Nations Billiards International at the Ivy Rooms, Carlow on 19th and 20th of November last. Darren Dornan, the current Northern Ireland champion and holder of the All-Ireland championship since 2009 when he beat

The third tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 18th of December 2016, the format being 90 minutes timed (all rounds). Reigning billiards double champion, and newly appointed All-Ireland billiards champion, Wayne Doyle, by winning the final by the closest margin we’ve seen for a