SBI Officials at 2022 Home Internationals

Snooker & Billiards Ireland have a full team of officials at the 2022 Home Internationals in the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds this week. SBI have four referees in action with Pat Mooney, John Kehoe, Paddy Hanafin and Aonghus McAnally.  Shane Mason is the HIBSF Tournament Director and Jim Leacy is the HIBSF Chairman. The

Referee of Year – Steven Foster

Snooker & Billiards Ireland have presented the 2022 SBI Referee of the year Award to Steven Foster. Shane Mason presented his award during finals weekend in the SBI HQ in Carlow on Saturday 21st of May. The other Award winners were; SBI Volunteer of the year award – Connie O Sullivan SBI Coach of the year award – Paul Keighery

Referee Seminar Held in Killarney

SBI held a Referee Seminar and Examinations in Cue Club Killarney Saturday 26th February. Shane Sexton from Limerick, Eamon Ryan from Cue Club Killarney, Jason Dowling from Limerick, and Gerry Russell from Cork a ttended this Seminar. Connie O’Sullivans wife Patricia opened the club for us and helped with photos during the day. Thanks to

Referee Seminar in Cue Club Killarney

The SBI Referee’s Association are holding a Snooker Referees Seminar in The Cue Club Killarney on Saturday 26th February at 11am to recruit new snooker referees. Any interested in attending this Seminar please contact: Ger Murray Chairman 0858782974 Neil Shanahan Secretary 0863578481 The following link is to the profiles of all the SBI Qualified Referees and

SBI Awards Presented

On Sunday the 19th of December, SBI presented Coach, Referee, Club, Volunteer of year awards. SBI also presented an award to congratulate our European Champions Mark Tuite & Frank Sarsfied. Each winner was selected in helping to promote the game all over Ireland. SBI Club of Year – Newbridge CYMS ( Ger Murray Accepted on

Deepest Sympathy

Everyone involved in Irish, European and World Snooker will be saddened to hear that Eugene O’Connor from Wales has sadly passed away this morning. Snooker & Billiards Ireland would like to offer their very deepest sympathy to Stella and his family and friends at this sad time. Eugene O’Connor would have been well known to

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

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 –

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

SBI Referee Application Form

Would you like to be trained to become a qualified SBI Referee?. Snooker & Billiards Ireland hold training courses throughout the season for our members. A candidate must attend 6 hours tuition with a Tutor or Examiner. These 6 hours may be broken down to 3 X 2 hour seminars on Rules of Snooker, Positioning