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Under 21 Ranking Event 2 – Enter Now

The second RIBSA under 21 Snooker Ranking event of the season will be held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Saturday the 24th of October. It promises to be another exciting event after Josh Boileau won event 1. The winner of Event 2 will receive a place at the European under 21 Championship in

Under 21 Ranking Event 2 – Enter Now

The second RIBSA under 21 Snooker Ranking event of the season will be held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Saturday the 24th of October. It promises to be another exciting event after Josh Boileau won event 1. The winner of Event 2 will receive a place at the European under 21 Championship in

Murray Wins SENIOR Billiards Event 2

The second tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at The Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 11th of October 2015, the format being 400up with a 90 minute time limit. Aidan Murray (Ivy Rooms) having opened his season in emphatic style by taking the season’s first tournament, continued in this vein by

Irish Ladies Snooker – NEW FORMAT

The Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association will introduced a new format of promoting women in sport for the new season. All RIBSA Ladies tournaments will have free entry into all events. RIBSA is the only official ladies snooker association in Ireland and the goal for the season is to promote and grow the

Casey wins Cork Close Championship

GREG Casey is the 2015 ‘Cork Close Individual Snooker Champion’ making it two victories in three years as he played brilliant snooker to win the shield back at Shooters snooker club in Blackpool last Saturday evening. The event started at 10am with the very best ‘Rebel Cue-men’ on the premises for what was a great

Boileau Wins Under 21 Ranking Event 1

Josh Boileau from Sallins won the first RIBSA Under 21 Snooker Ranking event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday the 4th of October. In the final he beat Aaron Tobin from Youghal CYMS 3 frames to 1 in an exciting final. Stephen Bateman from the Kilkenny Shed and Ross

Cathal Gordon wins National Intermediate 1

Celbridge Snooker Club played host to the first National Intermediate tournament of the season with 59 players entered. The event was organised by the Leinster Association under RIBSA rules. Players to impress in the early rounds were Richie Toal (Mullingar), Hughie O’Donnell (Tuam) and Brendan Thomas ( Roadstone). However in the top half of the

Judge wins Masters Ranking 1

Michael Judge from the QClub Wicklow who was playing in his first ever Masters event won the opening RIBSA Masters ranking event of the season when he beat Nigel Power 3 frames to nil in the final at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. Michael also won the Tournament high break prize with a

RIBSA Awards 2014 – 2015

This weekend our RIBSA Chairman Jim Leacy and RIBSA President Eamon Kearns made the presentations to the 2014 – 2015 RIBSA Volunteer of the Year, Referee of the year and Club of the year awards. The RIBSA Club of the Year was won by The Shed in Kilkenny The RIBSA Referee of the Year was

O Donoghue wins Senior Ranking 1

The first Senior Ranking Points Tournament of the season took place in Carlow this weekend on the 26th September 2015. There was a superb entry of 74 players, but seven no shows brought the total numbers down to 67. Four of the notable no shows were under 16’s who avail of free entry to the