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Judge wins Ranking Event No.2
The final line up for the second Ranking Points Tournament (RPT) saw the return of Michael Judge after 20 years on the professional circuit against Brendan O Donoghue who also spent a short time with the professional’s. The first frame saw Michael get off to a flying start with a break of 69 and taking the frame 103 points to 0. Brendan fought back in a close second frame to win 69/58. Although Brendan was playing well he did missed some easy shots and Michael was quick to punish him every time.
Youghal CYMS Cork
This week our National Coach PJ Nolan travelled to one of the oldest CYMS clubs in Ireland when he went to the Youghal Catholic Young Men’s Club in County Cork.
PJ Coaching Workshop in Belgium
Last weekend our National Coach PJ Nolan held another coaching workshop in the Le Safety Snooker Club in Chatelet in Belgium. This weekend was very special as the club was officially opened as the Sandrine Vlamynck Snooker Room in memory of the French number 1 lady player Sandrine Vlamynck who died earlier this year.
Murray wins Senior Billiards Ranking No. 2
Aidan Murray won the 2nd Senior Billiards Event held in the Ivy Rooms on 4th November. His opponent in the final was Wayne Doyle.
PJ Coaching Workshop in India
This week our National Coach PJ Nolan was invited to India to hold two snooker coaching workshops in the magical city of Mumbai and Pune. Twenty-one players in total attended each week long training course to improve their game which was organised by Fellow World Snooker Coach Derek Sippy and the Billiards & Snooker Association of Maharashtra.
IBSF Training Day with PJ
A training day with our National Coach PJ Nolan will be held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club on Tuesday the 13th of November from 11am to 4pm to prepare the Republic Of Ireland Snooker team for this month’s IBSF World Championship in Bulgaria.
Connors victorious in Donegal
The second Intermediate of the season took place at the CYMS Snooker club in Letterkenny last Sunday. There was a small but talented entry of 9 players from Sligo and Donegal.
Dubai Open
RIBSA have been asked to send two international players to the Dubai Open which will take place in the Dubai Snooker club from the 4th to 10th of November.
Senior Ranking Event No. 1
The first Senior Ranking Tournament took place in the Ivy Rooms, Carlow this weekend 13th & 14th October. This tournament was run in 16 groups with the top 2 qualifying for the last 32 knockout stage, each grooup match was 2 frames.
Israeli Shahar Camp with PJ
This week 16 year Shahar Davidovitch from Israel travelled to Carlow for a week long training camp in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club with our National Coach PJ Nolan. Shahar was impressed with my the Ivy Rooms as a great training academy and with the quality of coaching he received during the camp.
Devaney takes first Under-21 in Northwest
Jason Devaney and Aaron Moyles were the victors in the Northwest Snooker Club at the weekend. Ex-Irish Senior Champion Devaney ran away with the Under-21 event dropping only one frame in his group whilst winning all of his four matches. Moyles came third on the day in the Under-21’s but did however take the Under-19 section winning both of his group game matches.
McVeigh Wins Intermediate NW 1
North west Snooker Club in Letterkenny hosted the first Intermediate tournament of the season last weekend. This year the Snooker association of Ireland has decided to change the format for some of the tournaments, there will be four different formats, Seeded Groups, Open Draw, Double Elimination and Seeded draw. The new formats have created a lot of debate on the social media websites over the Summer break.