On Saturday & Sunday 6th – 7th April 2024, Rathkeale Snooker & Billiards club were delighted to be the host club for the staging of two National Intermediate Billiards Championships over the weekend. This was a first time that we held these two tournaments outside of SBI headquarters, On Saturday the first tournament was the

Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) would like to announce details of the SBI Billiards Irish Tour up to the 31st of December. Players should be aware that all entries are now through the on line system and you have to enter before the closing date. You can now enter and pay for all the events

The annual Billiards review meeting was held on the 10th March 2024 in the SBI HQ in Carlow For more Information you should contact John Kehoe.

The Snooker and Billiards Ireland Academy of Excellence was the venue for the qualifiers of the National Senior Billiards long-up championship that took place on Sunday 10th March with 12 players competing for a place on finals weekend in May. The day’s play ended with the familiar pairing in the form of National Champion Wayne

On 8th June, the Irish billiards and snooker community come together in a rare team challenge match in billiards to celebrate Larry Codd’s life. This match will be played between 8 billiard players and 8 snooker players in two sessions of billiards. It will be held in the SBI Academy in Carlow. Larry Codd was

Celbridge Snooker Club was the familiar venue for the qualifiers of the National Senior Billiards Short Format Championship that took place on Sunday 25th February and was played down to the semi finals which saw familiar players in reigning champion Wayne Doyle and current No.1 Aidan Murray book their final meeting once again for finals

The Pat O’Sullivan Memorial handicap tournament was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 11th of February 2024. After a day’s play, which saw many games decided on close margins, John Kehoe emerged the well deserved winner on the day, despite the significant handicap start he had to give his early round opponents. Play got

Hot Shots Snooker Club in Galway was the new venue for the fourth SBI Billiards Ranking Event of the season that took place on Sunday 7th January and the format was best of 3x100s in an open draw. 11 players participated and the day finished with Aidan Murray with the spoils and to maintain his

We had another great weekend of billiards at the Four Nations International event at the superb HSEB-Heeres-Snooker and English Billiards Club in Vienna. Our thanks go to Patrick Stegmeier and his colleagues at the club for their preparations for the event and for the excellent playing conditions and for looking after us so well during

The Timmy Murphy Memorial handicap tournament was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 26th of November 2023.  After a day’s play, which saw many interesting games and several surprise results, the trophy went to Ross Doyle (Dun Laoghaire), a fitting reward for the consistently high standard of play he showed throughout the day. Play