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Doyle wins Billiards Event 4
The fourth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 3rd of December 2017, the format being best of three games of 150up. Wayne Doyle (Dun Laoghaire), having put an uncustomary shaky start to the season behind him, sailed through the day to take the title without dropping a single game.
Myers wins Timmy Murphy Memorial Cup
The Timmy Murphy Memorial handicap tournament was played at Carlow on Sunday, 5th of November 2017. After a day’s play, which saw many interesting games and several surprise results, the trophy went to Lloyd Myers (AOH Cork), a fitting reward for the consistently high standard of play he showed throughout the day and a fitting result in that the magnificent AOH Cork sponsored memorial trophy returned to Cork in the hands of one of its members.
World Billiards: Live Streaming
World Billiards Limited has announced that the long format event at the 2017 LITEtask World Billiards Championship will be streamed from the quarter-finals stage onwards in the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds in England.
2017 Four Nations Billiards
RIBSA would like to wish the following six Irish Billiard players good luck in Austria next month. The six players have been selected from the 2016-2017 Senior Billiards rankings to represent the Republic of Ireland in the 2017 Four Nations Billiards International which takes place on 18th-19th November in the city of Vienna in Austria.
Doyle wins Billiards Event 2
The second tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 1st of October 2017, the format being 400up with a 90 minute time limit. Reigning Billiards Long-up champion, Wayne Doyle, still smarting from his defeat at the hands of Larry Drennan in the semi final of the opening tournament of the season, tasted sweet revenge when he turned the tables on Larry in a dramatic and very tight semi final and then proceeded to take the season’s second…
IBSF World Billiards Championships
The 2017 IBSF World Billiards Championship 150up & Long Up formats will be held in Qatar Billiards & Snooker Federation in Doha, Qatar from 9th – 15th November 2017. I have the pleasure of inviting you to send your players to participate in
Murray wins Billiard event 1
The first tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at The Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 10th of September 2017, the format being best of three games of 150up. Aidan Murray (Ivy Rooms) opened his season in emphatic style with clean-sweep 2-0 victories in his early matches and a 2-1 win in the Final.
Causier wins LITEtask Irish Open
David Causier from England won the 2017 LITEtask Irish Billiards Open in association with RIBSA and the Ivy Rooms in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Saturday & Sunday 20th & 21st May.
Russell wins LITEtask European Open
Mike Russell from England won the 2017 World Billiards LITEtask European Billiards Open in association with the Ivy Rooms & RIBSA in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Wednesday the 24th of May.
LITEtask IRISH & EUROPEAN OPEN
THE 2017 LITEtask Irish & European Billiards Open in association with RIBSA and the Ivy Rooms will be held from the 20th – 24th of May in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow
Murray wins Pat O Sullivan Memorial
The Pat O’Sullivan Memorial handicap tournament was played at Carlow on Sunday, 14th of May 2017. After a day’s play, which saw many games decided on close margins, reigning short format champion Aidan Murray emerged the well deserved winner on the day, winning all his matches despite the significant handicap start he had to give his opponents.
O’Flaherty win National Intermediate Long Up Title
On the 9th of April the RIBSA Intermediate National Billiards Championship Long Up Format was held in Celbridge SC. There were 7 entries in the event B Devlin, R Mc Crum, A O’Flaherty, J Dowling, P Martin, L Byrne and J Kehoe.