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Tobin wins U-19 Cue School Event 1
Aaron Tobin from Youghal CYMS won the first RIBSA Under 19 Cue School in the Newbridge CYMS Snooker Club in Newbridge on the 29th of December. The best 20 players in the Republic of Ireland have qualified from the four region rankings to play in four groups to qualify for the knock out stages with them all having the goal of getting on the 2013 Home International team.
Munster Snooker Club Championships Killarney Groups and opening match times
Munster Snooker Club Championships Groups and early group match timesGroup 1(A-)New Institute ‘A’ (1-Seed)(B)-The AOH ‘A’ Cork(C)-Cue Club ‘C’ Kerry(D)-Waterford ‘B’Group 2(A)-Crucible ‘A’ (2-seed)(B)-Douglas ‘A’ Cork(C)-Cappoquin Waterford(D)-New Institute ‘C’Group 3(A)-Waterford ‘A’ (3-seed)(B)-Norris’s Waterford(C)-Shooters ‘A’ Cork(D)-St John’s ‘B’ LimerickGroup 4(A)-Youghal CYMS ‘A’ (4-seed)(B)-Douglas ‘B’(C)-Cue Club ‘B’(D)-New Institute ‘B’Group 5(A)-New Vic ‘A’ (5-seed)(B)-Youghal CYMS…
Newbridge CYMS Coaching Night
Last Tuesday 11th of December Newbridge CYMS in County Kildare held a PJ Nolan Coaching night for their members to help promote the correct fundamentals in improving the game within the club.
Masters Ranking Series Event No. 4
Frank Sarsfield wins the 4th Master’s Event played in Carlow to-day Sunday 16th December. Frank beat Mark Tuite 3-1 in the final making it his second win of the season and goes into the new year top of the ranking with 460 points, Mark coming a close second on 43opts.
Happy Christmas
RIBSA would like to wish everyone involved in Irish Snooker a Happy Christmas and New Year. We look forward to meeting everyone again in 2013 which promises to be another fantastic season.
Cronin wins U-21 Cue School 1
Ryan Cronin beat Andy McClosey 3-0 in the final in the first RIBSA Under 21 Cue School is being held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow today.
Under 21 Cue School 1 – Groups
The first RIBSA Under 21 Cue School is being held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow today the 15th of December. 20 players have qualified from the four region rankings and the players played in four groups today to qualify the players for the knock out best of 5 stage.
Hogan wins Senior No. 3 – Double Eliminator
The third senior ranking tournament took place in the Ivy Rooms snooker club in Carlow on Sat 8th/Sun 9th December. This competition was run as a “double eliminator”. This means that players who lose their match, up to the quarter final, would get a second chance. This format threw up some interesting pairings, such as, Michael Judge beat Martin McCrudden 3-0, and a couple of games later, Martin got revenge, beating Michael 2-0 in the loser’s group.
New IBSF President Jim Leacy
The AGM of International Billiards & Snooker Federation took place at Sofia Princess Hotel here in Sofia, Bulgaria where elections been conducted for the positions of President, General Secretary and Treasurer. There was no opposition for the position of Vice President hence Capt. PVK Mohan (President, BSFI) has been elected unopposed for the second term.
Deepest Sympathies to the O’Brien family
Everyone involved within RIBSA would like to send their condolences to the family of Peter O Brien from Letterkenny who’s Mother died yesterday. The Republic Of Ireland Billiards and Snooker Association send their deepest Sympathies at this time to Peters Family and our thoughts are with you at this very difficult time.
Great Performance by the Irish Referres
The Republic Of Ireland three Referees Ger Murray, Paddy English and Neil Shanahan performed excellent in the 2012 IBSF World Championship in Bulgaria.
Murray wins Senior Billiards Event No. 4
Aidan Murray, once again won the Senior Billiards Event defeating Larry Drennan 2 sets to nil. The fourth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday, 2nd of December 2012. This was the second event of the season to be played in the short format, ie best-of-three 150up.