The Republic of Ireland Billiards and Snooker Referee association will hold a refresher course for all referees in Crossguns Snooker club on Saturday October 4th at 13.00hrs. It is very important that all referees attend this course as the recent rule changes will be explained.  

The third RIBSA level 1 Coaching Ireland Coaching Education Course was held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow this weekend on Saturday 30th and 31st of September. The three new level 1 coaches are Declan Quinn from Edenderry, Tony Thorpe from Newbridge and David Morris from Kilkenny after they attended the course given

The New Institute Snooker Club, Nenagh will host the second ever Nenagh Open on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September.  This event will hopefully provide an opportunity to witness some of the top snooker players from across Ireland, play in Nenagh, while also giving local talent a chance to test themselves against Ireland’s finest. The

On Saturday the 6th of September our National Snooker Coach PJ Nolan will hold a coaching day in the Northwest Snooker Club in Letterkenny from 1pm to 6pm. RIBSA Chairman John Doherty and owner of the Northwest Snooker Club said he is delighted to have professional coaching in the club. PJ will put the players

This year sees the second running of the Fermoy Cross invitation. Following on from the success of last years tournament we hope that this years tournament will be bigger and better. It is great to see nearly all of the players who competed last year returning to Fermoy and also some new faces. This years

On Wednesday the 27th of August our RIBSA Chairman John Doherty and our RIBSA Children’s officer PJ Nolan attended a workshop on Mental Health Awareness in Sport in the County Hotel in Newry, Northern Ireland. The course was presented by the Chief Executive of Aware Siobhan Doherty with a number of NGB’s from Northern Ireland

On Saturday the 23rd of August, The Republic Of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association held a Coaching Ireland Intro level course in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club. Philip Browne from Dublin, James Geraghty from Celbridge, Eric Morley from Mayo and Charlie Turbitt from Westmeath attended the course and they were guided in how to plan

This week The Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association held a summer snooker coaching camp in the Newbridge CYMS Snooker Club with our National Coach PJ Nolan. All the players were put through their paces with a number of cue ball training exercises and PJ worked on fine tuning their playing technqique. Newbridge CYMS

This week PJ Nolan from the 147academy held a two day summer camp in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow and all the students hailed it a great success. There were two star juniors in attendance from cue sports in Ireland with top International Snooker player Andrew Doherty from Dublin and International Pool player

We are excited to announce that first staging of The Irish Legends Cup is coming Goffs in Co Kildare and will take place between Sunday 28th and Tuesday 30th December 2014… and its IRELAND v ENGLAND! This promises to be a major sporting event for Ireland with 8 of the world’s most popular snooker players