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Cronin wins U-21 Cue School 1

Ryan Cronin beat Andy McClosey 3-0 in the final in the first RIBSA Under 21 Cue School is being held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow today. The highest break went to Andy McCloskey with a 70, 59, 57 Josh Boileau 65, 56, 53, 53, 48, 40. Andrew Doherty 64. Daniel Dempsey 64,

Under 21 Cue School 1 – Groups

The first RIBSA Under 21 Cue School is being held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow today the 15th of December. 20 players have qualified from the four region rankings and the players played in four groups today to qualify the players for the knock out best of 5 stage. Josh Boileau, Andy

Hogan wins Senior No. 3 – Double Eliminator

The third senior ranking tournament took place in the Ivy Rooms snooker club in Carlow on Sat 8th/Sun 9th December. This competition was run as a “double eliminator”. This means that players who lose their match, up to the quarter final, would get a second chance. This format threw up some interesting pairings, such as,

New IBSF President Jim Leacy

The AGM of International Billiards & Snooker Federation took place at Sofia Princess Hotel here in Sofia, Bulgaria where elections been conducted for the positions of President, General Secretary and Treasurer. There was no opposition for the position of Vice President hence Capt. PVK Mohan (President, BSFI) has been elected unopposed for the second term.

Great Performance by the Irish Referres

The Republic Of Ireland three Referees Ger Murray, Paddy English and Neil Shanahan performed excellent in the 2012 IBSF World Championship in Bulgaria. Ger Murray has on hand to monitor the Referees as an IBSF Examiner. Neil Shanahan was Assistant head Referee for the championship and Paddy English refereed at his first world Championship. They were

Murray wins Senior Billiards Event No. 4

Aidan Murray, once again won the Senior Billiards Event defeating Larry Drennan 2 sets to nil. The fourth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday, 2nd of December 2012. This was the second event of the season to be played in the short format, ie best-of-three

Tuite loses 4-5 in World Semis

Mark Tuite from the Republic Of Ireland was within touching distance of reaching the IBSF World Championship final here in Bulgaria today when he played Glen Wilkinson from Australia in the semi final. The Killarney man started off on fire and had breaks of 56 and 85 to build up a 2 nil lead. back

Tuite wins semi final spot in Irish Battle

All Irish eyes were on Sofia today when Brendan Cooney and Mark Tuite from the Republic Of Ireland played each other in  Q-Finals in the 2012 IBSF World Championships here in Bulgaria. Mark started best winning the two opening frames with 56 and 58 breaks but back came cooney to win the third with a
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Aidan Murray pinches third round

Billiards Scratch series, Aidan Murray pinches third round. The third tournament of the Scratch Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday, 25th of November 2012. Aidan Murray (Wicklow), having made a good start to the season by getting to every final so far, advanced his position in the

Conor Harkin comes of age

The 3rd of this seasons Intermediate Snooker Tournaments took place at the North West snooker club in Letterkenny last weekend.  There was a small but talented group of players with included 3 formed Donegal champions, Anthony Bonnar, Phelim Mc Clafferty and Sean Mc Veigh.  The tournament was run on a double elimination basis, which means