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Billiards Home Internationals 2026
The Snooker & Billiards Ireland have 3 Billiards Teams competing in the Home Internationals in the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds this weekend.
Billiards Camp for Home Internationals
Snooker & Billiards Ireland held a Billiards Training Day for our International Billiard players who are playing in the 2026 Home Internationals on Friday the 31st of July in the Academy in Carlow.
Wayne Wins National Billiards Short Format Championship
Wayne Doyle from Dublin won the National Billiards Short Championship on Saturday the 6th of June in the SBI Academy in Carlow during SBI Finals weekend. In the final Wayne beat Aidan Murray in a great final, that was refereed by Brendan Devlin
Doyle Wins National Billiards Long Up
Wayne Doyle from Dublin won the National Billiards Long Up Championship on Sunday the 7th of June in the SBI Academy in Carlow during SBI Finals weekend. In the final Wayne beat Aidan Murray in a great final, that was refereed by Brendan Devlin
North regain North-South Trophy.
The annual Billiards International North-South Challenge Tournament took place at the Reading Rooms, Bangor, Northern Ireland on Saturday and Sunday, 23rd and 24th May 2026. The format of the event was that each team of eight was divided into two groups of four, so that each player met four opponents from his corresponding group, with the consequence that all benefited from the variety of games the format provided.
Wayne wins All Ireland Billiards title
On Friday the 22nd of may wayne traveled up to drumaness snooker club to take on the Northern Ireland champion and world ranked number 11 Christian Kirk, Wayne himself been ranked world number 15 it all set up for what would be a interesting match up been played over 750 up Christian started off the best early on getting a 50 plus lead before Wayne came back with breaks of 109 and 77 to take the lead after steady scorings Wayne went further ahead and at the half way stage had a comfortable 220+…
Kothari Retaines IBSF Billiards Title
Sourav Kothari from India won the 2026 IBSF World Billiards (Timed) Championship in the Snooker & Billiards Ireland Academy of Excellence in Carlow. After an electrifying week of top class Billiards in Ireland, at the IBSF World Billiards Championship.
Causier Wins World Matchplay Championship
David Causier defeated Mike Russell 8-5 at the SBI Academy in Carlow, Ireland to win the World Matchplay Championship for a sixth successive time.
Causier Wins 2026 Irish Open
On Sunday 19th of April World No.1 David Causier from England defeated Robert Hall from England 702-355 at the SBI Academy in Carlow to win the 2026 World Billiards Irish Open title.
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.
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 World Matchplay and Irish Open respectively. There is a prize pool more than £24,000 on offer across our ‘double-header’ of events.
Doyle wins Billiards Event 6
Today Wayne Doyle defeated 8 times Irish champion Eugene Hughes in the final of senior billiard ranking event 6,