The annual Billiards International North-South Challenge Tournament took place at Celbridge Snooker Club on Saturday and Sunday, 3rd and 4th May last. The format of the series, which was changed in 2009 to a system where each team of eight was divided into two groups of four, has now become standard for the series. This

The 2014 Irish Billiards Long Format Championship was played in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow with Wayne Doyle, Dick Brennan, Rodney Goggins and Joe Doheny all qualifying for the semi finals which will be played during the RIBSA Championships Final weekend. A big well done to all the players and the Semi Final

The 2014 Senior Billiards Long-up Championships will take place at the Ivy Rooms Carlow on Sunday 27th April. Entries taken on the day up to 10:30am or phone 059-9137714. Play will continue down to the semi-finals. The four remaining players will then contest the semi-finals at the National Finals Weekend 23rd-25th May at the Ivy

History was created in the game of Billiards in Ireland today when Peter Gilchirst hit his career’s second 1000+ break against Northern Ireland’s cueist Chritian Kirk. But like so many other great moments of sports after achieving a goal all steam runs out, so was the case with Peter when he missed a pot in

The Pat O’Sullivan Memorial handicap tournament was played at Carlow on Sunday, 1st of December 2013.  After a day’s play, which saw many games decided on close margins, Aonghus McAnally, one of the most dedicated players on the current billiards circuit, was the well deserved winner on the day. Play started at 11.15am and all

England won the Nations Billiards Championship last weekend in Vienna and the event was hailed a great success featuring teams from Ireland, England and Northern Ireland and Host country Austria. The full Tournaments points were England 60pts, Republic Of Ireland 35pts, Northern Ireland 32pts and Austria with 17pts. This year’s event was played in the newly

The third tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 10th of November 2013. Wayne Doyle (Dun Laoghaire), having been to every final of the season so far, more than justified his No 1 position in the rankings by taking the event’s honours in a scintillating display of high

The 4 Nations Billiards Championship will take place in Vienna on the 16th & 17th of November with a strong RIBSA Team representing Ireland of Aidan Murray, Larry Drennan, Joe Doheny, Timmy Murphy, Aonghus McAnally, Robert McCrum, John Kehoe and the team Manager will be Brendan Devlin.   It promises to be an exciting event

Peter Gilchrist from Singapore won his maiden World Billiards (Long-Up) title under the banner of IBSF-WBL here in Leeds, England. Before this, he had won the World Professional Billiards championship twice in the year 1994 and 2001 but never got to win the championship conducted by IBSF. In the final he defeated David Causier from

David Causier lifted the first ever world title by winning 2013 World Billiards Championship (Short format) here at Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England. In the final he defeated former Asian Champion, Alok Kumar 6-1 in an one sided affair. Causier constantly kept scoring in the final and had no hurdle in climbing high to