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2013 EBSA – Serbia

The (EBSA) European Billiards & Snooker Association have just announced the 2013 European U21 & Teams championships will be played in SERBIA in the City of BOR from the 18th to the 28th March. The Opening ceremony for the Under 21’s event will be the 18th March at 10am and The Under 21 Championship will

Tobin wins U-19 Cue School Event 1

Aaron Tobin from Youghal CYMS won the first RIBSA Under 19 Cue School in the Newbridge CYMS Snooker Club in Newbridge on the 29th of December. The best 20 players in the Republic of Ireland have qualified from the four region rankings to play in four groups to qualify for the knock out stages with them all having

Masters Ranking Series Event No. 4

Frank Sarsfield wins the 4th Master’s Event played in Carlow to-day Sunday 16th December. Frank beat Mark Tuite 3-1 in the final making it his second win of the season and goes into the new year top of the ranking with 460 points, Mark coming a close second on 43opts. On the way to the

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