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Under 21 Ranking Event 2 – Enter Now
The second RIBSA under 21 Snooker Ranking event of the season will be held in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Saturday the 24th of October. It promises to be another exciting event after Josh Boileau won event 1.
Murray Wins SENIOR Billiards Event 2
The second tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at The Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 11th of October 2015, the format being 400up with a 90 minute time limit. Aidan Murray (Ivy Rooms) having opened his season in emphatic style by taking the season’s first tournament, continued in this vein by sweeping almost unstoppably to victory in the season’s second round, scoring 50-plus breaks in every game, including two magnificent centuries and winning every match almost unc…
Irish Ladies Snooker – NEW FORMAT
The Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association will introduced a new format of promoting women in sport for the new season. All RIBSA Ladies tournaments will have free entry into all events.
Casey wins Cork Close Championship
GREG Casey is the 2015 ‘Cork Close Individual Snooker Champion’ making it two victories in three years as he played brilliant snooker to win the shield back at Shooters snooker club in Blackpool last Saturday evening.
RIBSA Day 1 Training IBSF Camps with PJ
Our RIBSA National Snooker Coach PJ Nolan held his first of the two planned training camps to prepare our players for the 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championships on Tuesday the 6th of October in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow.
Boileau Wins Under 21 Ranking Event 1
Josh Boileau from Sallins won the first RIBSA Under 21 Snooker Ranking event of the season in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday the 4th of October. In the final he beat Aaron Tobin from Youghal CYMS 3 frames to 1 in an exciting final.
Cathal Gordon wins National Intermediate 1
Celbridge Snooker Club played host to the first National Intermediate tournament of the season with 59 players entered. The event was organised by the Leinster Association under RIBSA rules. Players to impress in the early rounds were Richie Toal (Mullingar), Hughie O’Donnell (Tuam) and Brendan Thomas ( Roadstone). However in the top half of the draw Adrian Morrissey ( New Ross) came through to meet Cathal Gordon (Galway) in the first semi-final.
RIBSA Training IBSF Camps with PJ
Our RIBSA National Coach PJ Nolan will be holding two training camps to prepare our RIBSA players for The IBSF World Snooker Championships on Tuesday the 6th of October and Sunday the 25th of October in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow from 11am – 4pm
Newbridge CYMS Coaching with PJ
On Monday the 28th of September our National Coach PJ Nolan returned to Newbridge CYMS Snooker Club in Co Kildare to hold another Coaching Session with their members.
Judge wins Masters Ranking 1
Michael Judge from the QClub Wicklow who was playing in his first ever Masters event won the opening RIBSA Masters ranking event of the season when he beat Nigel Power 3 frames to nil in the final at the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow.
RIBSA Awards 2014 – 2015
This weekend our RIBSA Chairman Jim Leacy and RIBSA President Eamon Kearns made the presentations to the 2014 – 2015 RIBSA Volunteer of the Year, Referee of the year and Club of the year awards.
O Donoghue wins Senior Ranking 1
The first Senior Ranking Points Tournament of the season took place in Carlow this weekend on the 26th September 2015. There was a superb entry of 74 players, but seven no shows brought the total numbers down to 67. Four of the notable no shows were under 16’s who avail of free entry to the tournament. As these no shows distort the draw, RIBSA have decided if these free entries do not turn up they will be fined €15 before they can enter another RIBSA event.