Female Cue Sports Ireland Annual General Meeting for 2025 was held at the Keadeen Hotel Newbridge on Tuesday 22nd July 2025
We had a good turnout for our AGM which is encouraging indeed
The meeting commenced with a welcome message from the Chairperson Dan Carroll, followed by a report from Dave Earle our Secretary, hereunder is Dave’s report
The 2024/2025 RILSA Season was yet another success for female cue sports here in Ireland. Our Calendar is one of the busiest in the World with over 49 events held during the season along with 371 women and girls participating in events and open days
Our National Championship and Ranking Events were well attended, with an average of 15 entries for each event. The Intermediate Championship and Ranking events were again well attended with an average of 12 entries for each event.
Our Billiards Association saw an increase in players which is encouraging. We had 6 players represent Ireland at the Home Internationals in Leeds UK in August along with a number of referees officiating. Congratulations to the Men’s Billiard Teams who both won their respective Tournaments.
I would like to thank all our clubs for hosting events during the past season and all our players that have supported our events. A special thanks to Bernie and Paul of Sharkx for all their support.
Congratulations to all the winners of our events during the season and well done to all of you for your participation
Our 2 new coaches along with 8 assistant coaches bring a total now of 44 qualified female coaches that will play a vital part in helping us to further develop female cue sports and I wish them well and that they have the full support of the Organisation
Our referees have done exceptional work throughout the season and I thank them for their dedication.
Thanks to Fergal O’Brien for all his support and Aidan Murray for all his great work at St Mark’s Special School
Thanks to the Board of Female Cue Sports Ireland for all their hard work and commitment in promoting female cue sports.
The Chairperson Dan Carroll gave a brief report followed by a comprehensive power point presentation on the 2024-2025 season
Hereunder is a bullet point report
1.Membership reached 1143 – 75 new members in 2024 & 143 so far for 2025 a total of 218 new members
2.812 Women & Girls have competed at National Level since September 2014
3.595 Girls have played snooker at school/college level since 2014
4.371 women & girls have played in RILSA events during last season
5.Referee Seminars in both Snooker & Billiards were conducted with 4 newly qualified referees to the RILSA Panel
6.2 qualified Introductory snooker & billiard female coaches trained along with 8 young girls trained as assistant coaches, bringing our coaching panel to 40 females
7.Dan Carroll and Dave Earle attended Courses with WIS
8.Annette Newman participated in the WBL Irish Open and refereed
9.Annette Newman participated in the World Matchplay and refereed along with Dan Carroll, Dave Earle
10.Thanks to Fergal O’Brien for his coaching workshops that were well attended.
11.Thanks to all the work and coaching by Aidan Murray at the Academy and St Marks Special School Newbridge
12.New tables to St Mary’s Edenderry and St Marks schools are on their way
13.4 more referees to our panel bringing our total to 15 in the organisation
14.Many Coaching days allocated to further develop female cue sports
15.Hedgehog Productions created a number of feature interviews with us for YouTube and social media
16.New home Nations events to be rolled out in the near future
17.Documentary will commence later in 2025
18.RILBA Celebrates 10 years and the roll out of new Billiard Shirts
19.New Snooker shirts were rolled out during the year
20.16 Girls commence a two year scholarship at Sharkx
21.Scholarship at Maynooth University established with Jennifer Earle as the first recipient
The Board of Female Cue Sports Ireland wish to thank all involved with the great success of our Organisation over the last season, our members, Schools, clubs, Our Academy at Sharkx Newbridge, Teachers, Coaches, Referees and supporters form across the cue sports community here in Ireland
Thanks to our hardworking Board team who put’s Female Cue Sports first at every level and encourages all females to get involved in our organisation.
