The English Blackball Pool Federation hosted a Test Match Series on 28th & 29th October 2011 in Chorlton, Manchester.

There were teams from South Africa, England and Rest of Europe attending in the divisions of Mens, Ladies, Seniors, U23's and U18's.

It was a great spectacle of pool and played in an extremely friendly atmosphere which everyone enjoyed immensely.

See the results by clicking Read More.

Here is the list of honours from this years Championships:-

Mens Individual - Christophe Thebault (France)
Seniors Individual - Pat Merrigan (Southern Ireland)
Ladies Individual - Sabrilla Brunet (France)
Under 23 Individual - David Carrie (Southern Ireland)
Under 18 Individual - Kieran Hawkins (England)

Mens 'A' Team - England beat France
Seniors 'A' Team - Scotland beat Southern Ireland
Ladies 'A' Team - Scotland beat France
Under 23 'A' Team - France beat Southern Ireland
Under 18 'A' Team - France beat Northern Ireland

Mens 'A' Team Doubles - Jimmy Carney & Ian Ali (England)
Seniors 'A' Team Doubles - Eric Sterrett & Stephen Johnston (Northern Ireland)
Ladies 'A' Team Doubles - Kim Black & Kathy Paton (Scotland)
Under 23 'A' Team Doubles - David Carrie & Gavin Stokes (Southern Ireland)
Under 18 'A' Team Doubles - Lee Wright & Declan Duff (Northern Ireland)

Mens 'B' Team - Southern Ireland B1 beat Northern Ireland B1
Seniors 'B' Team - Southern Ireland B1 beat England B1
Ladies 'B' Team - Scotland B1 beat England B2

Mens 'B' Team Doubles - Brian Crilly & Terry McDowell (Northern Ireland)
Seniors 'B' Team Doubles - Bill McIlroy & Davy McGurn (Northern Ireland)
Ladies 'B' Team Doubles - Danni McClelland & Kate Reeves (England)

Wheelchair Event - Rab McMaw (Northern Ireland)

Specials Mens Team - Northern Ireland
Specials Ladies Team - Northern Ireland
Specials Mens Individual - Paddy Reid (Northern Ireland)
Specials Ladies Individual - Briege McFaul (Northern Ireland)

Please use the links below to open the schedules for the events:-

A Event Schedule

Specials Event Schedule

B Event Schedule

A bid was accepted to host this years European Championships in Tullow, Ireland.

The venue is a Hotel, SPA and Country Club in the countryside. They have 143 bedrooms and 60 lodges which are like 4 bedroom houses.

They have a Championship Golf Course which will also be heavily discounted and all players will get use of Gym and swimming pool, only thing you need to pay for are any beauty treatments.

You can check out their website at Link

Playing dates are :-

B Teams
Arrive: 15 Sept
Play: 16-19 Sept
Depart: 20 Sept

A Teams
Arrive: 17 Sept
Play: 18-22 Sept
Depart: 23 Sept

Specials Teams
Arrive: 19 Sept
Play: 20-22 Sept
Depart: 23 Sept

U16. U18 & U23 Teams
Arrive: 17 Sept
Play: 18-22 Sept
Depart: 23 Sept

Costs will be €35 per person per night which includes breakfast and based on 2 people sharing. The Lodges are €35 per person per night self catering based on 6 sharing, but they could accommodate up to 8 and you only pay for 6.

There will be the usual food available but if you want a bit more they have a 3 course meal for €26.

There will be bus transfers organised from Dublin airport and anyone wishing to organise a bus transfer should contact Paddy Murphy by email on poolman_patrick@hotmail.com or phone them directly on 0874106150. These need to be requested before 31st July.

Its located about an hours drive from Dublin.

Below is a list of all the winners in each section at the recently finished EBA European Masters held in Bridlington.


Mens 'A' Scotland
Mens 'B' Scotland B1
Seniors 'A' Scotland
Seniors 'B' England B1
Ladies 'A' Scotland
Ladies 'B' Scotland B1
Specials Mens 'A' Northern Ireland
Specials Mens 'B' Northern Ireland B1
Specials Ladies 'A' Northern Ireland
Specials Ladies 'B' Northern Ireland B1
Under 16s Wales
Under 18s Scotland
Under 21s Wales

Mens Individual Champion Mark Bowen (Wales)
Seniors Individual Champion Ray McGuinness (Southern Ireland)
Ladies Individual Champion Kirsty Davies (Wales)
Specials Mens Individual Champion Peter Branchu (Scotland)
Specials Ladies Individual Champion Valerie Taggart (Northern Ireland)
Under 16s Individual Champion Declan Callaghan (Wales)
Under 18s Individual Champion Travis Furnish (Wales)
Under 21s Individual Champion Corey Rees (Wales)

Men's A Specials
Wales 9 - 17 Northern Ireland

Ladies B Specials
ENGLAND 1 - 7 N.IRELAND

Ladies A Specials
WALES 1 - 7 N.IRELAND

Seniors B
Scotland B1 10 - 13 England B1

Seniors A
Scotland 13 - 7 Southern Ireland

Men's B
Scotland B1 17 - 14 Scotland B2

Ladies B
Scotland B1 11 - 7 England B1

Ladies A
Scotland 11 - 10 Wales

Men's A
Scotland 17 - 12 England

Semi Finals results

Men's A Specials

Wales 24 - 9 England
Scotland 16 - 17 Northern Ireland

Seniors B

Scotland B1 13 - 4 Northern Ireland
Scotland B2 5 - 13 England B1

Seniors A

Scotland 13 - 7 Wales
Southern Ireland 13 - 8 England

Men's B

Scotland B1 17 - 4 England B2
Scotland B2 17 - 13 Northern Ireland B1

Ladies B

Scotland B1 11 - 6 England B2
England B1 11 - 6 Scotland B2

Ladies A

Scotland 11 - 7 Northern Ireland
England 10 - 11 Wales

Men's A

Scotland 17 - 10 Northern Ireland
England 17 - 15 Wales

The EBA European Masters are held in Bridlington from Wednesday April 21st until Friday 29th.

The Youth and Juniors start on the Wednesday and finish on the Friday with the Adults starting on Sunday 24th April and LD's starting on Wednesday 27th.

Programme for the adult and LD event can be viewed by clicking on following Link

There will be an EBA Open held at Bridlington on Saturday 23rd April starting at 2pm. Entry is £25 per person with all money paid out in prizemoney.

Restricted to 96 entries and all matches will be best of 11 frames.

As this is replacing the cancelled EBA IM the entries Scotland and England guaranteed before the deadline will be entered directly into the last 64.

Enter the event via Trevor Harte and if event is not full beforehand then entries will be taken on the day.

A bid was accepted to host this years European Championships in Tullow, Ireland.

The venue is a Hotel, SPA and Country Club in the countryside. They have 143 bedrooms and 60 lodges which are like 3 bedroom houses.

They have a Championship Golf Course which will also be heavily discounted and all players will get use of Gym and swimming pool, only thing you need to pay for are any beauty treatments.

You can check out their website at Link

Playing dates are going to be finalised in the next couple of weeks and will start at some point in September. But events will be staggered so all the teams wont be in attendance for a full week etc.

Costs will be €35 per person per night which includes breakfast and based on 2 people sharing. The Lodges are €35 per person per night self catering based on 6 sharing, but they could accommodate up to 8 and you only pay for 6.

There will be the usual food available but if you want a bit more they have a 3 course meal for €26.

There will be bus transfers organised from Dublin airport at a cost just like France.

Its located about an hours drive from Dublin.

On Saturday 23rd April 2011 in Bridlington there will be the finals of the very first EBA IM event where 64 players who qualified in their own country to earn a place in the finals.

Entry will be £25.

You enter thru your own countries member association and once the entries have been finalised each country will be allocated x amount of spaces based on a pro-rata. So the larger the entry you take the more places at the finals your country will receive.

Entry deadline will be 13th February.