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Youghal CYMS Cork

This week our National Coach PJ Nolan travelled to one of the oldest CYMS clubs in Ireland when he went to the Youghal Catholic Young Men’s Club in County Cork. PJ met up with Brendan Cooney and fellow committee members Ray Whelan, Derek Ahearn and Patrick Walsh and they showed him around the club. The

Murray wins Senior Billiards Ranking No. 2

Aidan Murray won the 2nd Senior Billiards Event held in the Ivy Rooms on 4th November.  His opponent in the final was Wayne Doyle. The second tournament of the Scratch Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday, 4th of November 2012. Aidan Murray (Wicklow), having made a good start

IBSF Training Day with PJ

A training day with our National Coach PJ Nolan will be held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club on Tuesday the 13th of November from 11am to 4pm to prepare the Republic Of Ireland Snooker team for this month’s IBSF World Championship in Bulgaria. The RIBSA players that will fly the flag in the event

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