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SBI Announce EGM

Snooker & Billiards Ireland would like to officially announce to our members that SBI will hold their EGM in Knightsbrook Hotel and Golf Resort, Dublin Road, Iffernock, Trim, Co. Meath on Saturday the 17th of July at 11am. Discussion and Vote on deferred motion from the AGM. Election of Council Members and any other vacant

Postponed Elections

Snooker & Billiards Ireland will hold their AGM on the 22nd of May 2021 and we encourage all members to attend the online AGM via Zoom at 12 noon. If any SBI member would like to attend they should email info@sbireland.ie so an link will be sent to you to join the AGM. Postponed Elections

2021 Referees AGM Held

The AGM of SBI Referees Association was held on Thursday the 6th of May on Zoom. Fifteen people attended the AGM. There was a motion to increase committee to 7 and this was unanimously passed. The following Committee were elected Ger Murray Chairman Neil Shanahan Secretary Shane Corr Treasurer Shane Mason Committee Brendan Devlin Committee Aonghus

Sport Ireland Announcement on Individual, Indoor Training

SBI today received an announcement from Sport Ireland on Individual, Indoor Training. Please find below additional information in relation to the recent government announcements. Click Download – Individual Indoor Sport Click Download – Safe Return to Sport Sport Ireland will continue to engage with the sector in advance of each reopening date to provide additional

2021 ROKiT World Seniors Championship

The 2021 ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship gets underway on Thursday 6th of May live from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Irishmen Ken Doherty, Patsy Fagan and Michael Judge will fly the Irish flag with Northern Ireland Champion Patrick Wallace join Hendry, White and many other legends of the game. View Draw UK and Ireland

Philip Nominated for Q School Spot

Snooker & Billiards Ireland are delighted to announce that Philip O Connor who plays out of Darcy McGees SC in Dublin has been nominated for the WST free place in the 2021 Q School. WST awarded a free place to all Home Nation Countries and Philip qualified as our leading player on the SBI Senior

Neil appointed to EBSA Referee Committee

Snooker & Billiards Ireland are delighted to announce Neil Shanahan has been selected to be part of the EBSA Referee Sub-committee. All selected Referees below, have wide range of knowledge and experience and will contribute to the development of referee matters throughout Europe. Chairman: Peter Thomas – Wales Wiktoria Jedruszek – Poland Vadim Krivda –

PJ appointed to new WPBSA Coaching Panel

SBI are very happy to announce our National Coach PJ Nolan has been invited be part of the New WPBSA International Expert Coaching Advisory Panel. It is a great honour for PJ and for SBI to have PJ involved in the development of the sport at the top level within the WPBSA and SBI congratulate

What is your SQ?

This week our SBI National Coach PJ Nolan was honoured to be named as an ambassador of the Snooker Quotient (SQ) which was launched officially on the 28th of April. This project by Terry Griffiths (in Wales) and Wayne Griffiths (in Hong Kong) is designed to allow all players to train locally, compare and compete

Referees 2021 AGM

The AGM of SBI Referees Association will take place via Zoom on 6th May 2021 at 7pm. All S&BI referees are invited to attend the AGM. Please email Referee secretary Neil Shanahan before the 6th May if you would like attend with your email address so we can invite you to the Zoom Meeting. nshanahan0@gmail.com