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2014 Legends Cup – Ireland Vs England

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

RIBSA ” Intro Level Course ”

RIBSA have now six confirmed coaches for the Intro level Coaching Ireland Course in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Saturday the 23rd of August. This one day course is for members who want to start coaching within their own club. The couse covers the basics in coaching players to start training snooker and

Thailand win IBSF Women Team Title

Team Thailand comprises of Amornrat Uamduang and Siripaporn nuanthakhamjan defeated Russian women team Daria Sirotina and Anastasia Nechaeva 4-1 to lift the 2014 IBSF World Team Women Championship here in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. Both the Thai girls gave consistent performance and capitalized all single frames they played. The only frame they lost was doubles. Siripaporn, who

Wales win IBSF Masters Team Title

Welshmen Darren Morgan and Elfed Evans brushed aside team Thailand (Phisit Chandsri and Chuchart Trairttanapradit) with their crackling performance in the final of IBSF World Team Masters 2014. Worth praising the way Welshmen finished the final 5-0 having breaks of 100 and 66 in last two frames by Elfed and Darren. Earlier also, Darren crafted

India win IBSF 6red Mens Title

The 6Red’s final in the IBSF Men’s final, appeared one-sided match for India’s star cueist Advani who entered the arena much determined and the same displayed in the game as well. Each frame that Advani won, had played every shot precisely to make brilliant clearance and outclassed the other finalist, Kacper Filipiak from Poland. In

Thailand win IBSF 6red Ladies Title

Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan of Thailand won the 2nd edition of IBSF World Women 6Reds Championship and retained the title in Asia that was won by Ng On Yee last year. Today Siripaporn defeated Anastasia Nechaeva to claim her maiden world title. Her accurate potting helped her climbing high and gained 2-0 lead. However, third frame slipped

Well done Ger Murray

Ger Murray from Ireland proved again to be regarded as one of the top International Snooker Referees when he was awarded the World IBSF 6red Snooker Final in Sharm El Shaikh Egypt this week. The final was between Pankaj Advani from India and Polish player Kacper Filipiak.  The Match was won by Advani 4 frames

Well done Team Ireland

Well done to Rodney Goggins from Ireland who reached the Q-Final of the IBSF World 6red Championship in Sharm El Shaikh Egypt this week. Rodney had a string of fantastic victories in the knock outs but he was beaten by Pankaj Advani from India 5 frames to 4 earlier today in a high quality match.

Final Home International Camp with PJ

Our National Coach PJ Nolan will hold his final training camp for The 2014 Home Internationals Snooker Championships to prepare our RIBSA players on the 28th and 29th of July in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. The players will train on the Shender Match Tables from 11am – 4pm. RIBSA have organised this two day

IBSF 6red Championship Egypt

Rodney Goggins moved into the Qfinals of the  IBSF Wold 6red Championship in Sharm El Shaikh Egypt today with a fine 4-3 Victory over a top class Polish opponent Michał Zieliński in the last 16 this morning and he then beat current World U-21 Champion Hossein Vafaei Ayouri from Iran 4 frames to 3 in