Higher Education Snooker and Pool Council
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The Higher Education Snooker and Pool Council (HESPC) is a voluntary, not-for-profit organisation established to promote cue sports in institutions of higher education on the island of Ireland.
Founded in the early 1990s, it is recognised by the Republic of Ireland Billiards and Snooker Association, the Irish Pool Association, Northern Ireland Universities Sports Committee (NIUSC) and the Colleges and Universities Sports Association of Ireland (CUSAI)
as the governing body for higher-education cue sports for the whole of Ireland. Its wider membership meets during captains' meetings at the two main intervarsity events, in snooker
and pool
, each year.
As well as these domestic championships, HESPC organises both Irish teams that attend the annual Student Eight-Ball Home Internationals for all five home countries, and assists with the British Universities and Colleges Sport Snooker Home Nations Festival (for the four UK teams), which has run alongside HESPC's own Snooker Home Internationals since 1996.
HESPC's committee is: Dr Patrick McWilliams
, chairman; Colm Dooley, president and treasurer; Brian Keenan, secretary; Steven O'Reilly, student liaison. Its correspondence address is: 41 Wainsfort Manor Crescent, Terenure, Dublin 6W.
Founded in the early 1990s, it is recognised by the Republic of Ireland Billiards and Snooker Association, the Irish Pool Association, Northern Ireland Universities Sports Committee (NIUSC) and the Colleges and Universities Sports Association of Ireland (CUSAI)
Colleges & Universities Sports Association of Ireland
The Colleges and Universities Sports Association of Ireland was formed in November 2005 when the Irish Universities and the Institutes of Technology decided to come together and form one organisation to oversee Irish third level student sport....
as the governing body for higher-education cue sports for the whole of Ireland. Its wider membership meets during captains' meetings at the two main intervarsity events, in snooker
Snooker
Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
and pool
Blackball (pool)
Blackball is a pool game that is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, several Western European nations, Australia and some other countries. In the UK and Ireland it is usually called simply "pool"...
, each year.
As well as these domestic championships, HESPC organises both Irish teams that attend the annual Student Eight-Ball Home Internationals for all five home countries, and assists with the British Universities and Colleges Sport Snooker Home Nations Festival (for the four UK teams), which has run alongside HESPC's own Snooker Home Internationals since 1996.
HESPC's committee is: Dr Patrick McWilliams
Patrick McWilliams
Patrick McWilliams is an Irish author, born in 1963 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Amongst his main publications is the 40-volume OS Memoirs of Ireland series and subsequent index ....
, chairman; Colm Dooley, president and treasurer; Brian Keenan, secretary; Steven O'Reilly, student liaison. Its correspondence address is: 41 Wainsfort Manor Crescent, Terenure, Dublin 6W.