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Annette wins Paddy Murray Memorial Title

The Paddy Murray Memorial handicap billiards tournament took place at Edenderry Snooker Club on Sunday, 29th of October 2023.  After a day’s play, which saw many interesting games and several surprise results, the trophy went to Annette Newman (Carlow), a fitting reward for the consistently high standard of play she showed throughout the day. Play

International Camps held with PJ

Last week Snooker & Billiards Ireland held two International Snooker Training Camps with our National Coach PJ Nolan in the SBI HQ in Carlow on Thursday and Friday the 26th & 27th of October to prepare our National players for the 2023 World IBSF Snooker Championships which will be held in Qatar. Training Camps SBI

IBSF International Camps with PJ

Snooker & Billiards Ireland will hold three International Snooker Training Camps with our National Coach PJ Nolan in the SBI HQ in Carlow to prepare our National players for the 2023 World IBSF Snooker Championships which will be held in Qatar. The players will practiced on the Star & Rasson Match Tables from 11am-4pm on

Doyle wins Billiards Event 2

The Snooker & Billiards Ireland Academy of Excellence in Carlow was the venue for second billiards ranking event of the season that took place on Sunday 22nd October which also featured only the second annual Victor O’ Gorman Classic and in a fitting way Victor’s clubmate Wayne Doyle won the trophy once again for the

Crowley Wins SBI U-21 Event 2

Snooker & Billiards Ireland held their second (SBI) Under 21 Snooker Tour Event of the season on Saturday 21st of October 2023 in the SBI HQ in Carlow and the Number 1 seed was Noel Gleeson from Nenagh after he won event 1. As part of European Week of Sport SBI had set the entry

Ryan Wins Amateur Event 2

On October 14th/15th October SBI held the second amateur event of the season where it was Ryan Cronin from Cork who wins his second event of the season. We had 57 entries for this event and by the end of Saturday we were down to the last 16. There were a number of outstanding performances

Doran Wins Challenge Event 1

Adrian Doran from Liam Mellows SC Wexford won the first National Challenge Ranking event of the season in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow on Sunday 8th of October. In the final Adrian beat Number 1 seed Pat Fitzgerald from Dungarvan in a good final that was refereed by International Referee John Tobin. SBI

Joe Wins SBI U-18 EVENT 1

12 yr old Joe Shannon from Longford won the first Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) Under 18 ranking event of the season on Saturday 7th of October in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow. The two top seeds for this event were number 1 Joe Shannon and No.2 seed David Farrelly. We had players

Murray wins Billiards Event 1

The first Billiards Ranking Event of the season took place at Newbridge Cyms on Sunday 8th October, 13 players took part and at the end of day’s play Aidan Murray got some measure of revenge when he defeated recently crowned Double National Billiards Champion Wayne Doyle. There were pre quarter wins for Larry Drennan, Eugene

Referee Seminar in SBI HQ Carlow

The SBI Referee’s Association will be holding an official Snooker Referee Seminar in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow on Bank Holiday Monday the 30th of October at 11am to recruit new Snooker or Billiard Referees and train Level 4 referees to qualify as Level 3 International level. Anyone interested in attending this Seminar