We had the usual large and strong entry for the national men's and women's championships, held over the weekend of 18/19 January in the Westgrove Hotel in Clane. The 2020 national champions are: Women's Pairs (Jackson Cup): Ann Burns & Helen Healy, with Gilda...

Tom Hanlon added to his already illustrious list of achievements recently by being part of the winning team in the prestigious French Premier League. Tom's team (Tom Hanlon, Romain Zaleski, Philippe Cronier, Thomas Bessis, Frederic Volcker, and Cedric Lorenzini) were...

The following have been selected to represent Ireland at the upcoming Peggy Bayer & Junior Camrose Trophies (the Under-21 and Under-26 home internationals, respectively), to be held in the University of South Wales Campus, in Newport, Wales, over the weekend of...

A full list of all players upgraded as of 1 January 2020 is here. Congratulations to them all on their progress up the rankings. Please note that these players are entitled to continue to play within their old grades in competitions for which they qualified prior to 1...

Good luck to the team that will represent Ireland in the first weekend of the Camrose (home internationals) series, to be held in Edinburgh over the weekend of 10-12 January - Tom Hanlon, Hugh McGann, Grainne Barton, John Carroll, Nick FitzGibbon, and Adam Mesbur,...

Given that most people have a bit more time on their hands than normal these days, we are finding lots of interest in learning bridge, or in improving your bridge if you are already playing. All tuition is currently online for the moment, of course, but a number of...

Welcome to the redeveloped CBAI website. This exercise proved to be a bigger job than originally anticipated, so thank you for your patience. Following feedback from members, our key objectives in the redevelopment of the site were to make it less cluttered, more...

We would like to wish all members of the CBAI a very happy and peaceful Christmas, and hope that they have a healthy and bridge-filled 2020. Our thanks in particular to all the club and regional officers for their support during 2019. Our offices will close for the...