We are pleased to inform you that the CBAI Annual Newsletter is now available online – just open the link below. Member feedback from last year was that online was the way to go in the future with this publication.
CBAI Newsletter 2021In this year’s edition you’ll find:
- An address from CBAI President Pat O’Mahony
- Farewell remarks from our retiring CEO Paul Porteous
- A brief tribute to Paul by CBAI President Emeritus Joe Moran
- A summary of your feedback on online bridge, plus notes by our international Tournament Director Fearghal O’Boyle on adapting the laws of bridge for the online world
- Details of bridge classes planned for 2021/22, almost all still online for the moment
- Regional reports from the regions who felt they had anything to say
- A report on Junior bridge
- Details of the upcoming face-to-face Drogheda Congress (30 September – 3 October)
- And last but not least … a quiz for members with a chance to win a weekend away in the recently refurbished Dromhall Hotel in Killarney
Thanks to all who contributed, to our editor-in-chief Aidan Hodgers, and to all our advertisers, especially the Dromhall Hotel for their generous prize. Please try to support our advertisers wherever you can.
We hope that you will find plenty to enjoy in the Newsletter and would welcome your feedback. And if anyone has any ideas on material they’d like to see in future publications, we’d be delighted to hear them.
Finally, you may have seen that we had hoped to hold the Duais an Uachtarain as a live multi-venue event on 25 September, to bring the CBAI back to live bridge. Unfortunately this has not proved possible – several of the venues we hoped to use were not in a position to open at that point, and feedback from your regional representatives was that most people’s minds were not back in live bridge mode yet, and that the time for publicising the event was just too short. So we have postponed the Duais for the moment, and are looking at alternative dates. We will let you know as soon as anything is confirmed.