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Grant Wins Intermediate Event 2

The second national intermediate Tournament was held last Saturday in the Crucible club in Cork. We had a good entry of 21 players. Some matches of note in the last 16 were Mark Gleeson v Jay Chopra. Mark ran out a 3-0 winner. Many tough this was going to be close but Mark was just

Alex Wins SBI U-21 Event 1

The first SBI Under-21 Ranking Event of the season took place on Sunday 6th November at the Snooker and Billiards Ireland Academy of Excellence in Carlow where nine players participated. At the end of a long day’s play Alex Currid from the Liam Mellows Club in Wexford took the spoils playing exciting snooker and showing

Joe wins SBI U-14 No.2

On Saturday 5th of November Snooker & Billiards Ireland (SBI) held the 2nd U-14 National Snooker Ranking Tournament of the season in the SBI HQ in Carlow which was won by 11year old Joe Shannon from Longford. In the semi finals the Number 1 seed and current National U-14 Champion Max Kennedy from Galway faced

The Paddy Murray Memorial Billiards

The Paddy Murray Memorial Billiards Tournament will take place in Edenderry Snooker club on December 11th.  SBI handicap system will be used. Each match will last 75 minutes. Entries to Liam Byrne (only) at 086 2585694. All entries must be in before 5pm on Thursday Dec. 8th.  Entry fee €20.

IBSF World Men’s Snooker Championships

The IBSF & Turkish Billiards Federation are hosting the 2022 World Snooker Championships for the Men, Women and Masters categories. These championships shall be played in Antalya, Turkiye from 4th November till 17th November. All three Irish players have qualified from their groups and will play in the Knock out Stages starting on the 9/11/2022

Deepest Sympathy

Snooker & Billiards Ireland sends its sincere condolences to the family of Youghal Snooker player Jonathan (Jiles) Tobin who passed this week. SBI offer their condolences to all his family and friends at this sad time. May he rest in peace RIP Click RIP.ie Details

SBI International Training Day 2 Held

On Saturday 29th of October in the SBI HQ in Carlow, Snooker & Billiards Ireland held the final training camp with PJ Nolan to prepare our players for the 2022 IBSF World Snooker Championships which is being held in Turkey next week. During the training camp our National Coach PJ Nolan held sessions on Break-Building,

Dowling wins Timmy Murphy Memorial

The annual Timmy Murphy Billiards Memorial took place on Sunday 30th October at Celbridge Snooker Club which witnessed Jason Dowling from Rathkeale in Co. Limerick retain the trophy that he won last year in convincing fashion. Nine players took part in this special event in memory of the popular billiards player from Cork which now

Sport Ireland Coaching Meeting

On Friday the 28th of October, Snooker & Billiards Ireland had a meeting with Deirdre Morrissey who is the PA to Director at Sport Ireland Coaching in the SBI HQ in Carlow. Our National Snooker Coach & Development officer PJ Nolan met with Deirdre to discuss our current Syllabus of the SBI Coaching Program plus

O’ Connell wins U-18 Event 1

The first SBI U-18 Ranking Event of the season took place on Sunday 23rd October at the Snooker and Billiards Ireland Academy of Excellence in Carlow. Nine players took part and the day ended with James O’ Connell as the worthy winner to get the U-18 tour well and truly up and running. There was