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Crucible SC Club of the year 2013

The Crucible Snooker Club in County Cork have been crowned the 2013 RIBSA Club of the year with a presentation to club owner Jimmy Hussey from our National Coach PJ Nolan this week. This award is to highlight the club with the most players in the top 16 of all the various RIBSA categories ,

RIBSA Training Camp for World IBSF with PJ

This week the 5th & 6th of November RIBSA held a two day training camp for The World IBSF Snooker Championship with our National Coach PJ Nolan in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. RIBSA organised the camp to help our Republic of Ireland players  Michael Judge, Brendan O Donoghue, David Hogan,  Mark Tuite,

2013 Four Nations Billiards Championship

The 4 Nations Billiards Championship will take place in Vienna on the 16th & 17th of November with a strong RIBSA Team representing Ireland of Aidan Murray, Larry Drennan, Joe Doheny, Timmy Murphy, Aonghus McAnally, Robert McCrum, John Kehoe and the team Manager will be Brendan Devlin.   It promises to be an exciting event

Ireland players for 2013 IBSF Latvia

The RIBSA Committee have just announced details of the RIBSA players and officials who will represent Ireland in the 2013 IBSF World Amateur Senior and Masters Snooker Championships. The event will be held in Daugavpils, Latvia from the 27th November to the 8th of December and it promises to be an exciting event with a total

Tuite Wins Masters Ranking Event 3

Mark Tuite from the Cue Club Killarney is back with a bang when he won the third RIBSA Masters Event of the Season with a 3-1 win over Dylan Rees from Waterford in a close fought final on Sunday in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. John McBride from Cavan had the high break

Israel Training Camp success for PJ

Last week our National Coach PJ Nolan was invited back to Tel Aviv in Israel to train and prepare Shachar Ruberg for the 2013 Israel Senior National Snooker Championship. The 19 year old went on to win the Israel Senior Championship for the first time when he beat David Vaizman 6 frames to 5 in an

O’Regan wins National Intermediate No.1

Daniel O’Regan from the Crucible SC in Cork continued his great season when he won the first National Intermediate Snooker Ranking Event No.1 in the Ivy Rooms SC in Carlow today. In the Final Daniel beat Martin Thorpe from Newbridge CYMS 3 frames to1in a superb final. Daniel had wins against Paul Ludden 3-0; Benny O’Brien

Gilchrist is World Billiards Champion (Long Format)

Peter Gilchrist from Singapore won his maiden World Billiards (Long-Up) title under the banner of IBSF-WBL here in Leeds, England. Before this, he had won the World Professional Billiards championship twice in the year 1994 and 2001 but never got to win the championship conducted by IBSF. In the final he defeated David Causier from

Causier lifts World Billiards (Short format)

David Causier lifted the first ever world title by winning 2013 World Billiards Championship (Short format) here at Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England. In the final he defeated former Asian Champion, Alok Kumar 6-1 in an one sided affair. Causier constantly kept scoring in the final and had no hurdle in climbing high to

RIBSA Membership Card Launched

The Republic Of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association will introduce new Membership cards this season for all its members. Each card will have your RIBSA number and you can enter any event by texting your membership number and your name to 085 242 8701 before the closing date of any RIBSA event. If any Member