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Doyle wins National Billiards Long Up title
Wayne Doyle from the Q Club in Wicklow reatained his RIBSA Irish Billiards Long up Championship Final in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday the 8th of May.
RIBSA win 2016 North – South Billiards
The annual Billiards International North-South Challenge Tournament took place at Celbridge Snooker Club on Saturday and Sunday, 23rd and 24th April 2016. The format of the series was that each team of eight was divided into two groups of four, so that each player met four opponents from his corresponding group, with the consequence that all benefited from the variety of games the format provided.
National Billiards Championships – Short Format
The National Billiards Championships, preliminary rounds down to the last four, took place at The Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 17th April 2016. A total of 13 players contested the event, which meant that three byes were awarded into the quarter finals, No 1 seed, Aidan Murray, No 2, Wayne Doyle and No 3, John Kehoe.
National Billiards – Long up format
The National Billiards Championships, preliminary rounds down to the last four, took place at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 3rd April 2016. A total of 15 players contested the event, which meant that only one bye was awarded into the quarter finals and that was to the season’s No 1 seed, Aidan Murray (Ivy Rooms).
Goggins Wins Senior Billiards Event 6
The sixth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at Celbridge Snooker Club on Sunday, 6th March 2016, played in 90 minute timed format. Former Billiards Double Champion Rodney Goggins (Wexford), having had little success this season so far, enjoyed the sweet taste of victory when he took his first tournament win of the season.
Murray Wins Senior Billiards Event 5
The fifth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at The Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 14th of February 2016, the format being 400up with a 90 minute time limit. Aidan Murray (Ivy Rooms)having had a very successful opening to his season, made up for his semi final defeat in the last event not only by winning the fifth tournament of the season, which he did in emphatic style, but also regaining the No 1 spot in the current season’s rankings.
Doyle Wins 4th Senior Billiards
The fourth tournament of the Senior Billiards series was played at The Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow on Sunday, 31st of January 2016, the format being best of three games of 150up, open draw. Current National Billiards Double Champion Wayne Doyle (Q Club, Wicklow) swept to victory in almost unstoppable form, scoring 50-plus breaks in every match and winning every match in emphatic style.