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European Week of Sport

To celebrate the 2018 European Week of Sport from the 22nd to the 30th of September. The Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association (RIBSA) will offer free attendance for our players to the RIBSA Training Camps for the upcoming IBSF Championships in Russia and Myanmar. Our National Coach PJ Nolan will hold two planned

Senior Snooker Ranking Event 1

The Draw for the first RIBSA Senior Snooker Ranking event of the season ” The Barracks Classic”  was made today. This event will be played on Saturday / Sunday the 22nd & 23rd of September in the Northwest Snooker Club in Letterkenny County Donegal. The Closing date for entries for Event 1 in Letterkenny was the

Withdraws from any RIBSA event

The Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association would like to inform all members that withdrawals from any official RIBSA events must be done by texting the RIBSA text number on 085 2428701 before the closing date. Otherwise the member will owe the entry fee to RIBSA and will not be able to participate in

Landers wins RIBSA U-21 Ranking Event 1

Noel Landers from Youghal CYMS in Cork won the first RIBSA Under 21 Snooker Ranking event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday the 9th of September. In the final Noel beat Aaron Hill from the Crucible SC in Cork 3 frames to nil in a superb display to go

Hill wins RIBSA U-18 Ranking Event 1

Aaron Hill from the Crucible SC in Cork won the first RIBSA under 18 Snooker Ranking event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Saturday the 8th of September. In the final Aaron beat Ross Bulman from Youghal CYMS in a superb final 3 frames to nil to go top of

RIBSA Yearly Awards Presented

The Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association have just announced that winners of the 2017-2018 RIBSA Awards in the Ivy Rooms SC in Carlow over the weekend. RIBSA Chairman Jim Leacy and RIBSA Vice Chairman Ger Murray made the presentations on the day for the following RIBSA awards: RIBSA Volunteer of the year –

Brendan Qualifies for ACBS Asian Snooker Tour

Congratulations to Irelands Brendan O Donoghue on qualifying for the ACBS Asian tour recognized by IBSF for 2019. Brendan qualifies by reaching the semi-final of this year’s European Mens Championships in Bulgaria earlier this year. RIBSA wish Brendan the best of luck on this new exciting tour starting in Qatar in September. The first stage

Goggins Wins Club Singles Championships

The Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association would like to announce that Rodney Goggins from the Liam Mellows SC Wexford won the 2018 RIBSA Club Singles Snooker Championships on Sunday the 2nd of September in the Ivy Rooms SC in Carlow. In the final Rodney beat John Sutton from Potters SC 3 Frames to

Sutton & McPhee Win National Doubles Title

The 2018 RIBSA National Scotch Doubles Championship was the first official event of the new RIBSA season when it was played on Saturday the 1st of September in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. Teams of John Sutton & Brian McPhee played Philip Browne & Brendan Thomas both qualified for the final after superb

Billiards – Home Internationals 2018

The Republic of Ireland Billiards Team of Lloyd Myers, Aonghus McAnally, John Kehoe and Team Manager Brendan Devlin played fantastic Billiards this week in the 2018 Home Internationals in the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. John Kehoe finished at the top of the player stats. Team Ireland finished in 3rd place while it was England A who won the