A very happy Christmas from all at the CBAI, and best wishes for 2024. Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm for bridge as we continue to rebuild after a very difficult period. Our offices will be closed from 12:00 noon on Thursday 21 December until...

Here are the notices for the international trials to select Irish Bridge Union teams for the European Mixed and Senior Teams Championships to be held in Herning, Denmark, from 24 June - July 4, 2024, and for the corresponding events in the World Bridge Games to be...

Thanks to all the clubs who supported the IBU Simultaneous Pairs in the first week of November. This makes a substantial contribution every year to the Irish Bridge Union (the confederation of the CBAI and the NIBU responsible for all-Ireland teams for international...

There is an error in the closing date for the Bidding and Play Quiz entries in the current edition of the Irish Bridge Journal, for which we apologise. Both quizzes quote a closing date of 10 December. That should of course read 10 January. Sorry about that. You'll...

The CBAI’s Master Pairs competition was held over the weekend of 9/10 December. Thanks to our new sponsors, ALHomecare, whose Managing Director, Tom Quinlan, attended the Sunday session of the event to introduce his firm to CBAI members, and to join the presentation...

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We are pleased to present the fourth issue of the new-style Irish Bridge Journal. This completes the first yearly cycle since the CBAI took over the publication of the Journal from Una Walsh. Thanks again to our editor Enda Murphy, our designer Sue Power, all our...

We are delighted to announce that the CBAI has confirmed a new sponsorship agreement, with ALHomecare - the Live-In Care Specialist. ALHomecare has been placing live-in carers nationwide since 2013. Their carers, who are all Garda vetted and reference checked, offer...