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Doyle Wins Senior Billiards event 3

The third tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 10th of November 2013. Wayne Doyle (Dun Laoghaire), having been to every final of the season so far, more than justified his No 1 position in the rankings by taking the event’s honours in a scintillating display of high

McCrudden Wins Premier Tour N0.2

The 2nd event of the Premier Tour “The RIBSA Irish Open” was played today Sunday 10th November 2013 at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. The highlight of the early rounds was last 32 match between current no. 1 on the rankings Rodney Goggins and Martin McCrudden. Playing solidly Rodney won the first two frames, but

Flynn Wins National Handicap Open 3

Richie Flynn from Waterford played superb snooker today when he won the third RIBSA National Open Handicap event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. In the final Richie beat local player Colvin O Brien 3 frames to 1 in an exciting final. This was the third event of the season

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