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Connors victorious in Donegal

The second Intermediate of the season took place at the CYMS Snooker club in Letterkenny last Sunday.  There was a small but talented entry of 9 players from Sligo and Donegal.   The preliminary match saw two of last year’s winners, Mickey Duffy (Twin Towns Snooker Club) and Phelim Mc Clafferty (CYMS)play off for a
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Dubai Open

RIBSA have been asked to send two international players to the Dubai Open which will take place in the Dubai Snooker club from the 4th to 10th of November. The event is been hosted to prepare the UAE players for the upcoming World Championships in Sofia and thus they are looking for us to send

Senior Ranking Event No. 1

The first Senior Ranking Tournament took place in the Ivy Rooms, Carlow this weekend 13th & 14th October. This tournament was run in 16 groups with the top 2 qualifying for the last 32 knockout stage, each grooup match was 2 frames. 79 players entered, 11 of them juniors with 6 no shows. After a long
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Devaney takes first Under-21 in Northwest

Jason Devaney and Aaron Moyles were the victors in the Northwest Snooker Club at the weekend. Ex-Irish Senior Champion Devaney ran away with the Under-21 event dropping only one frame in his group whilst winning all of his four matches. Moyles came third on the day in the Under-21’s but did however take the Under-19

McVeigh Wins Intermediate NW 1

North west Snooker Club in Letterkenny hosted the first Intermediate tournament of the season last weekend. This year the Snooker association of Ireland has decided to change the format for some of the tournaments, there will be four different formats, Seeded Groups, Open Draw, Double Elimination and Seeded draw. The new formats have created a

Dempsey Wins Intermediate SE 1

Daniel ” Steel ” Dempsey won the first Intermediate Snooker Ranking event of the RIBSA season in the South East region today in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. In the final Daniel beat last year’s Intermediate S.E. number 1 Richie Flynn from Waterford 3 frames to 1 to lift his first ever RIBSA

International Challenge Cup

Ken Doherty was on cue in wishing the International Challenge Committee all the best it the International Snooker Challenge Cup being held in Ronchin, Lille, France next week. Photo left to right Stephen Merrigan, Nigel Power, Ken Doherty, Eddie Ingle and Robert Murphy. Republic of Ireland selection that will be playing against a French selection

IBSF World Championships

The Republic Of Ireland Snooker team for the 2012 IBSF World Championship has been now been confirmed with Johnny Williams, Greg Casey and EBSA Nomination Brendan O Donoghue competing in the Men’s event. Mark Tuite and Brendan Cooney will fly the Irish flag in the Masters event and it promises to be an exciting championship

World Billiards Championship

The World Billiards Championship will be held in The Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds from the 18th to the 28th of October. Aidan Murray, Wayne Doyle, Mark Nolan and Derek O Neill will compete for the Republic of Ireland in the event where they will face all best players from all around the world including defending champion
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Rules – Under Age Series

This season Junior Snooker in Ireland will be played in four zones in four venues on the same day. In the Nationwide events Under 14 and Under 16 events will be played together. Under 19 and Under 21 events will also be played together. The Nationwide events will qualify the top ranked players from each zone