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2026 IBSF WORLD BILLIARDS

The IBSF is pleased to announce the groups of the 2026 IBSF World Billiards Championship which will be played from April 24 to 29, 2026, in the SBI academy in Carlow, Ireland. We thank Snooker and Billiards Ireland for hosting this prestigious event in their world class academy. CLICK – Festival of Billiards Programme 2026

National Super Seniors Championship

The Draw for the SBI Super Seniors (Over 55’s) National Championships which will be played on Sunday the 26th April – Newbridge CYMS was made today. All of the top players in action. Action will start at 10am and it will be played down to the final. It has been a fantastic season but who

Sarsfield Wins Seniors 5

The final of the last Snooker & Billiards Ireland Seniors ranking event of the season took place in the 1 Eleven club in Cappoquin, a high-quality purpose-built snooker arena that has seen the greats of our game in recent years. Hosted and refereed by Michael ‘dots’ Doherty the match broke of at 7pm and became

SBI Junior Development Day – 23th May

Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) have just announced they will hold another free National Snooker & Billiards Junior Developmental Day on Saturday the 23rd of May in the SBI HQ Academy of Excellence in Carlow from 11am to 4pm with PJ Nolan our National Coach and his fellow SBI Qualified coaches. Tables SBI will use

U-12 147academy Championship

The 12th year of the Under 12 Irish National Snooker Championship will be held on the 24th of May in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow. Twelve years ago Corey Ramsbottom from Carlow won the first ever U-12 Title in 2014. This year the final will be played as part of Finals weekend from

Billiards World Matchplay and Irish Open

The SBI Academy in Carlow (Snooker & Billiards Ireland HQ) once again plays host to the Macau Casino World Matchplay Billiards Championship, our second level 6 event of the season, which is taking place in April. We are also pleased to confirm that both Macau Casino and Sammin Engineering have continued their sponsorship of the

Rowan Wins 14’s Snooker Event 4

Rowan Kelly from Youghal won the SBI 14’s Snooker Event 4 which was started on Saturday 21st of March in the SBI HQ in Carlow and the final was played on Saturday 11th April against James Brennan from Mayo. All of the top players were in action in a great day of junior snooker. There was

National 18’s Snooker Championships

The SBI 18’s Snooker National Championships will be played Saturday 18th of April in the Newbridge CYMS with all of the top players in action. TD will be PJ Nolan. It has been a fantastic season with 2 different winners this season. Who will end up the National Champion??? and follow Jack OBrien who won

Intro Level Course Qualifies 5 New SBI Coaches

Snooker & Billiards Ireland held a one-day Intro Level Snooker Coaching Education Course on Saturday the 4th of April in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow to qualify five new SBI Coaches. Fionn Nagle from Dungarvan, Mark Maher & Mark Warnock from Dublin and Gary Spencer & Justin Thomas from Donegal attended this course

Clayton Wins 21’s Tour Event 4

The fourth event in the 147 Academy 21’s tour was held on Saturday April 4th 2026 in the SBI headquarters in Carlow. A strong field comprising 16 of the country’s finest young players assembled for this competition. All matches were best of 5 frames. Play began at 10am and saw victories for James Stewart O’Reilly