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Casey wins Munster Close
Results will be shown here.. Last 32 Brendan O’Donoghue v Bye Ryan Cronin 3-1 Kevin McMahon Gary Bracken 3-1 Frank Sarsfield Tom O’Driscoll w/o David Cassidy Niel Madigan 3-0 Ray Scullion Timmy Murphy 3-0 Arthur Greer Darren Mirza 3-0 David Reece Mark Tuite 3-0 Pat O’Rourke Greg Casey 3-1 Richie Flynn Leonard Shanahan 3-2 Kevin O’Leary Philip Burke 3-1 Ray Power Daniel O’Regan 3-1 David Forde Kieran McGuire w/o Michael Walsh Paddy Murphy w/o Llyod Myers Trevor Hayes 3-2 John Hayes John Torpey v…
Hughes wins 4th Billiards Event
The fourth tournament of the Scratch Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday, 11th of December 2011. Eugene Hughes, having bowed out at semi final stage in the previous two ranking events, both to last season’s No 1 ranked player Aidan Murray, more than made amends by taking the fourth tournament title of the season in a gripping final against Aidan.
Dominik Scheruebl Training Camp
Dominik Scheruebl a talented 15 year old from Austria is the latest International player to travel to Ireland for a two week training camp in Carlow with PJ Nolan.
Ladies Event 3 – Q’s Clondalkin
The 3rd Ladies ranking event was held in Q’s Clondalkin on Sunday 4th December. Michelle French drew Michelle Sherwin again this month in the semi-final. This was a tough match for the current number 1, as her opponent kept right up with her in all frames right up until the colours, but the reigning number 1 showed her experience and managed to close out the frames to win the match 3-0.
Brendan Into IBSF Q-Finals
Brendan O Donoghue is now the only Republic of Ireland player left in the 2011 World snooker Championships in India. Brendan will play Hossein Vafaei from Iran in the morning in the Q-finals and everyone in Ireland wish Brendan good luck in the match.
Boileau Wins Under 21 Ranking 2
The second RIBSA Under 21 ranking event of the season was held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday with all the top U-21 players from all around the country playing in the event.
Myers Wins Intermediate Billiards
Lloyd Myers won the third RIBSA Intermediate ranking event of the season was played in the Ivy Rooms SC in Carlow on Sunday. In the final he beat James Bateman 400-316 in a great final In the semi finals James Bateman beat Brendan Devlin and Lloyd Myers beat Liam Byrne.
Cassidy Wins Under 19 Event 2
The second RIBSA under 19 ranking event of the season was held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Saturday 26th November. David Cassidy from Cork won the final with breaks of 46, 32, 55 and 30 in the beating clubmate Ryan Cronin from Cork who had 68, 38 and 46 in an superb final 3 frames to 2
Munster Club Championships
The 2012 Munster Club Championships will take place on the last weekend in January with 24 teams expected to take part again this year down in the Gleneagle Hotel. As usual the organisers will be holding a meeting on the 5th of December in the Wagon Tavern Pub in Fermoy at 8pm to finalise the details of the event.
Gleeson wins again in Carlow
It was an all Tipperary affair in Carlow for the final of the 3rd Masters event with Nenagh’s Tommy Gleeson just edging out Thurles player Ger Delaney by three frames to two in a superb final on Sunday. No.1 seed Gleeson had played some great snooker all day with 3-0 wins over Cork’s Derek O’Neill and Edenderry’s Shea Brereton before just getting over the line in the semi finals 3-2 against Limerick’s Albert Hogan.
Our Deepest Sympathy
Everyone involved within the Snooker Family would like to send their condolences to the family of Declan Waters from Wexford who died this week. Declan represented the 147 Snooker Club in Wexford in many RIBSA events over the years.
Doherty Wins U16 Ranking Event 2
Andrew Doherty from Terenure Sports Club in Dublin won his second under 16 ranking event of the season in Newbridge CYMS on Sunday. In the final Andrew beat Ross Doyle from Dublin 3 frames to 1 in a repeat of the first ranking final earlier this season.