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Cue Sports India Workshop

Last week PJ Nolan RIBSA National Coach and Work Snooker Coach held a successful training workshop in New Delhi India which was organised by www.cuesoprtsindia.com. The workshop was held from 2nd – 10th of January 2012 and featured a number of players of various standards from all across India. Vivek Pathak Chairman of Cue Sports
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Cut off point for EBSA U21 & Team C-Ships

This weekend Ranking Tournament is the cut off point for selection of RIBSA players for the 2012 EBSA European Under 21 and Team Championships in Sofia Bulgaria. All teams and players must notify the Tournament Director at this weekend’s senior event if they are available to travel to Bulgaria in March. Click here to view
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PTC Finals in Galway

The Bailey Allen Hall in Galway , Ireland , will stage snooker’s Players Tour Championship Grand Finals for the first time in March. The tournament is the climax of the PTC Series, which has featured 12 short events staged in the UK and around Europe over the past six months. It is open to all
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Casey wins Munster Close

Results will be shown here.. Last 32 Brendan O’Donoghue v Bye Ryan Cronin 3-1 Kevin McMahon Gary Bracken 3-1 Frank Sarsfield Tom O’Driscoll w/o David Cassidy Niel Madigan 3-0 Ray Scullion Timmy Murphy 3-0 Arthur Greer Darren Mirza 3-0 David Reece Mark Tuite 3-0 Pat O’Rourke Greg Casey 3-1 Richie Flynn Leonard Shanahan 3-2 Kevin
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Hughes wins 4th Billiards Event

The fourth tournament of the Scratch Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday, 11th of December 2011. Eugene Hughes, having bowed out at semi final stage in the previous two ranking events, both to last season’s No 1 ranked player Aidan Murray, more than made amends by taking

Ladies Event 3 – Q’s Clondalkin

The 3rd Ladies ranking event was held in Q’s Clondalkin on Sunday 4th December. Michelle French drew Michelle Sherwin again this month in the semi-final. This was a tough match for the current number 1, as her opponent kept right up with her in all frames right up until the colours, but the reigning number
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Brendan Into IBSF Q-Finals

Brendan O Donoghue is now the only Republic of Ireland player left in the 2011 World snooker Championships in India. Brendan will play Hossein Vafaei from Iran in the morning in the Q-finals and everyone in Ireland wish Brendan good luck in the match. Earlier in the day Rodney Goggins lost in the last 48
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Boileau Wins Under 21 Ranking 2

The second RIBSA Under 21 ranking event of the season was held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday with all the top U-21 players from all around the country playing in the event. Josh Boileau from Newbridge CYMS won the event in beating David Cassidy from the Crucible SC in Cork
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Myers Wins Intermediate Billiards

Lloyd Myers won the third RIBSA Intermediate ranking event of the season was played in the Ivy Rooms SC in Carlow on Sunday. In the final he beat James Bateman 400-316 in a great final In the semi finals James Bateman beat Brendan Devlin and Lloyd Myers beat Liam Byrne. Q-Final Robert McCrum 325-400 Brendan
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Cassidy Wins Under 19 Event 2

The second RIBSA under 19 ranking event of the season was held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Saturday 26th November. David Cassidy from Cork won the final with breaks of 46, 32, 55 and 30 in the beating clubmate Ryan Cronin from Cork who had 68, 38 and 46 in an superb final 3 frames
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