Dublin Billiards and Snooker League News Archive 2011-2012
 
Roadstone 'A' All Ireland Semi-Finalists 2012
Eddie Ingle, Mark Dooley, Noel Blake, Robert Redmond, Stephen Merrigan, Paul Smith
Roadstone 'A' All Ireland Club Championship Semi-Finalists 2012
29th January 2012: Celbridge retained their All Ireland Championship trophy in Killarney today beating Northern Irish team Drumaness 3-1 in the final. Roadstone 'A' reached the semi-finals beating New Institute of Nenagh 3-2 in the quarter-finals with Paul Smith winning the deciding match, before losing 3-2 to Drumaness.

Darcy McGees 'A' lost in a three team play-off for runners-up in Group 1 to Crucible from Cork. The other 3 D.B.S.L. teams all won at least one match. All the results from the tournament are available here.
 
29th January 2012: All league clubs are invited to join the Snooker Directory, a new web site that aims to promote snooker clubs across Europe. All clubs will have their own page on the Snooker Directory website where they can advertise their club and use it to increase the number of players playing in their clubs. More information on the Snooker Directory is available here.
 
27th January 2012: (Peter Murphy) (Willows 'A') made a 97 in his 2-1 win against Ross Doyle (Glenageary) this week.
 
17th January 2012: (Robert Redmond) (Roadstone 'A') made a 147 in practise tonight and nearly followed it up in the next frame with another one, missing the black off the last red when on 113.
 
8th January 2012: Roadstone 'A' won the 2012-2012 Dublin Club Championships in Darcy McGees Snooker Club in the early hours of this morning after one of the longest day's play in D.B.S.L. history. They beat Division 1 team Roadstone 'C' in the final which did not finish until after 2am. George O'Hara (Roadstone 'B') made the highest break, a 121.
 
3rd December 2011: Wayne Doyle (Glenageary) won the 3rd East Intermediate in Celbridge Snooker Club today. He beat Stephen Reddington (Darcy McGees 'B') 3-2 in the final. Stephen made the highest break with a 73. All the results from the day are available here.
 
2nd December 2011: Robert Redmond (Roadstone 'A') had a break of 105 in his league win against Terry Rogers 'A' this week.
 
25th November 2011: George O'Hara (Roadstone 'B') had a 93 break in his 2-1 league win over Paul Smith (Roadstone 'A') this week.
 
4th November 2011: Robert Redmond (Roadstone 'A') had a magnificent break of 121 in his league win over Chris Hannigan (Darcy McGees 'A') this week.
 
24th October 2011: Philip Browne (Roadstone 'B') came through two qualifying rounds to reach the main draw of the 8th PTC tournament in Killarney. He then had a superb win beating world no. 55 Peter Lines 4-3 in the 1st round before losing 4-0 to world no. 73 David Gilbert. Neil Robertson eventually beat Judd Trump 4-1 in the final. All results from the last 16 onwards are available here.
 
23rd October 2011: Ross Doyle (Glenageary) won the 2nd RIBSA Intermediate Billiards Tournament in Carlow today, beating Brendan Devlin (Celbridge) 400-259 in the final.
 
21st October 2011: Wayne Doyle (Glenageary) had a break of 81 in his league win over Philip Murphy (Roadstone 'C') this week.
 
16th October 2011: Stephen Merrigan (Roadstone 'A') won the 1st Over 35's today in Roadstone Snooker Club. Stephen beat Richard Hayes (Howth CYMS) 3-2 in the final after fighting back from 2-1 down. A report and all the results from the day are available here.
 
15th October 2011: Stephen Byrne (Roadstone 'B') won the second East Intermediate in Cross Guns Snooker Club today. He beat Chris Hannigan (Darcy McGees 'A') 3-2 in the final. All the results from the day are available here.
 
14th October 2011: Wayne Doyle (Glenageary) had a break of 84 in his league win over Mark Farrell (Willows 'A') this week.
 
2nd October 2011: Rodney Goggins (Wexford) won the 1st RIBSA Senior Ranking Tournament in Carlow today. He beat former Ierne player John Sutton 5-3 in the final. Best D.B.S.L. performance was from Robert Redmond (Roadstone 'A') who reached the quarter-finals before losing 4-2 to Vincent Muldoon (Waterford).
 
24th September 2011: Wayne Doyle (Glenageary) won the first East Intermediate in Darcy McGees Snooker Club today. He beat Chris Hannigan (Darcy McGees 'A') 3-0 in the final. Wayne also had the highest break of the day, a 91 in the final. All the results from the day are available here.
 
22nd September 2011: Naoise Kelly (Glenalbyn) had a break of 81 in his league win over Wayne Doyle (Glenageary) this week.
 
More news from the 2010-2011 season available here.