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 in Ireland and Great Britain.

Founded in the early 1990s, it is recognised by the Republic of Ireland Billiards and Snooker Association, the Irish Pool Association and the Colleges and Universities Sports Association of Ireland (CUSAI) as the governing body for higher-education cue sports in 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 Sports Association 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. Its correspondence address is 24 The Elms, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.