Yet another busy weekend, with Galway Congress at the Ardilaun Hotel, and the Junior Home Internationals, for the Junior Camrose (Under-26) and Peggy Bayer (Under-21) Trophies in Prestwick, Scotland. In Galway, where the numbers were once again well up on the previous...

Best of luck to the Irish teams that will represent us in the junior home internationals in Prestwick, Scotland, at the weekend. The are two competitions - the Junior Camrose (Under-26) and the Peggy Bayer Trophy (Under-21). England has dominated both competitions in...

The Holmes Wilson Cup, the biggest single event in the CBAI's calendar, took place over the weekend in the Mount Wolseley Hotel in Tullow, with a near-capacity turnout of 123 teams. Our thanks to our new sponsors, Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland, for their sponsorship of...

Peter Pigot and the Junior Committee will hold a special fundraiser for Irish junior bridge in Templeogue on Sunday 8 March. There will be two sessions of bridge, one at 10:30, the second at 14:45, and players can enter one (€25) or both (€40) sessions. There will be...

Both the EBL and the WBF are continuing their efforts in support of women's bridge. First up we have the next instalment of the EBL's Online Training Program for Women, which will take place on Monday February 23 at 19:30 CET (so 6:30 p.m. in Ireland). The guest coach...

Yet another busy weekend, with Ennis Congress at the Inn at Dromoland, and the first of two weekends of the IBU Mixed trials taking place in the Templeogue Bridge Centre. In Ennis, where the numbers were once again well up on the previous year, the prizewinners were:...

We have seven entries for the IBU Mixed trials, which will require two weekends of play. The preliminary round will be held this weekend in the Templeogue Bridge Centre, with the top four teams qualifying for the second weekend to determine the winners. Kibitzers are...

Due to a competing function at the hotel, unfortunately we do not have as much capacity as we had hoped for the Burke and O'Connor Trophies in Knightsbrook over the weekend of 21/22 March. It has therefore been necessary to limit entries to 24 teams in the Burke...

Many congratulations to Wayne Somerville, the winner of the Inaugural Irish Individual Knockout Championship, played recently on Funbridge. The final was a triumph for bridge youth, in that Wayne, a current Northern Ireland international who graduated from the junior...

It was another busy weekend, with both the Confined Regional Master Pairs and Teams competitions and the Teltscher (Senior Camrose) trials taking place in the Templeogue Bridge Centre. In the Regional Masters events, the prizewinners were:: Pairs: Winners - Brendan...