It was another busy weekend of bridge. We had the CBAI’s National Confined Pairs and Teams Championships (for the Lambert Cup and Cooper Cup respectively) and the National Novice Pairs Championship (for the JJ Murphy Trophy) in the Loughrea Hotel and Spa. Well done in particular to the novices who played; many of them were taking part in their first serious competition. Thanks also to our TDs Huey Daly and John Phelan for making sure everything went smoothly. The prizewinners were:
- Lambert Cup (National Confined Pairs Championship) – 1st Sean Whelan & Brendan Rushe; 2nd Hugh Twomey & Declan O’Brien; 3rd David Sheehan & Pat Twomey; 4th Pawel Turczynowicz & Maurice Brosnan; Best Intermediate Pair Anne Nolan & Frank Reynolds; First Session Patricia Quigley & Anne M Duffy; Second Session Liz Sherlock & Geraldine Murphy Full results
- Cooper Cup (National Confined Teams Championship) – 1st Alan Auchincloss, Kyrle Allen, Hugh Twomey, Declan O’Brien; 2nd Debbie Leahy, Barry Leahy, Jeremy James, Mia Delaney; 3rd Margaret Martin, Lorraine Barry, Maura Conway, Kathleen Shaw; 4th Declan Byrne, Nicola O’Dowd, Breda Tuite, Blanaid Morris; Best Intermediate Team Niamh Boyle, Nessa Neilson, Gary Beirne, Colin Kelly; First Session Angela Murphy, William Enright, Paul Waldron, Ann Cairns; Second Session Nicola Power, Anne O’Kane, Fiona McGoldrick, Elizabeth Meagher Full results
- JJ Murphy Trophy (National Novice Pairs Championship) – 1st Mary Devine & Ruth Keogh; 2nd Helen Locke & Robyn Conway; 3rd Patricia Martin & Declan Downey; 4th Agnes Hurley & Declan Hardiman Full results
Lambert Cup Winners 2025
Cooper Cup Winners 2025
JJ Murphy Trophy Winners 2025
The weekend also saw the IBU’s All-Ireland Pairs Championship (for the Moylan Cup), held in the Malahide Bridge Centre, and ably directed by Eamon Galligan. The prizewinners were:
- 1st Anna Onishuk & Karel De Raeymaeker
- 2nd Cian Holland & Pat Quinn
- 3rd Mark Moran & John Carroll
- 4th BJ O’Brien & Derek O’Gorman
- Session Prizes: Thomas MacCormac & Peter Pigot; Evgenia Gladysheva & Konstantin Rabkin (who actually came top of the pile in both session 2 and session 3!); Bill O’Hanlon & Tony Ward
- Full results