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Reid Wins Challenge Event 3

Keilum Reid Wins Maiden National Title at St. John’s Snooker Club Keilum Reid from Waterford won his first national title by triumphing in the third Challenge event of the season, held at St. John’s Snooker Club in Limerick on November 16th and 17th. A competitive field of 29 players battled it out over the two-day

Intro Level Course Qualifies 2 New Coaches

Snooker & Billiards Ireland held a one-day Intro Level Snooker Coaching Education Course on Saturday the 16th of November in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow to qualify two new Coaches. Liam Hayes and Robbie O Sullivan from Fermoy CYMS in Cork attended this course which was given by our WPBSA & SBI National

Murray wins Billiards Event 3

Celbridge Snooker Club was once more the setting for the 3rd Billiards Ranking Event of the season that took place on Sunday 17th November which saw 11 players taking part. The format was 90 minutes and ended with the reigning National Long-up Champion Aidan Murray deservedly win the event playing solid billiards throughout the day.

2024 Inter Provincial Series Postponed

Following discussion SBI Tommy O Donoghue has informed that the 2024 Inter Provincials will be now postponed until later in the season. A new date will be decided on that wont clash with any other event. This new date will sent out to the provinces in 2025. If you need more information, please email info@sbireland.ie

Doheny wins Paddy Murray Memorial

The Paddy Murray Memorial handicap billiards tournament took place at Edenderry Snooker Club on Sunday, 3rd of November 2024.  After a day’s play, which saw many interesting games, the trophy went to Joe Doheny (Borris-in-Ossory), a fitting reward for the consistently high standard of play he showed throughout the day. Play started at 11.00am, all

Snooker in Schools – Coláiste na Toirbhite

Snooker & Billiards Ireland held their final Snooker in Schools project for 2024, on Tuesday the 12th of November for students from Coláiste na Toirbhite – Presentation College in Athenry Galway. This SBI grass roots development program main objective, is to help develop the interest of our sport within schools and to grow the game.

Halnon Wins 21’s Event 2

Adam Halnon from Gorey in Wexford won his maiden Junior ranking title when he won the second Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) 21’s Ranking event of the season on Saturday the 9th November in the SBI HQ Carlow. Today we had 22 entries from all over Ireland and the future is looking good for Irish

Liam Wins 14’s Event 2

No.1 seed Liam Dunne from Edenderry SC won the second Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) Under 14 Ranking event of the season on Saturday the 9th of November in the SBI HQ Carlow. Eight players entered the event today and our National Coach was very impressed with the young talent on show. In a repeat

Sarsfield Wins Super Seniors Event 2

The second SBI Super Seniors tour event of the season took place on Sunday 27 October in the in Roadstone Snooker Club in Dublin. We had 14 entries for this event was won by the number 1 seed Frank Sarsfield who beat the number 2 seed Brendan Thomas in Final by 3 frames to nil.

Gleeson Wins Century Tour Event 2

The second SBI Challenge tour event of the season took place on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November in Celbridge Snooker Club. We had a fantastic 43 entries for this event and by the end on of day one we had 4 players remaining. There was a lot of fantastic performances in this event which