This weekend sees two congresses, one live and one virtual, so something for everyone regardless of geography. The live congress is the North Kerry one, in the Rose Hotel in Tralee, and the virtual one is Kilkenny, which is on BBO.

The IBU Interprovincial Championships were held over the weekend of 19/20 November in the Templeogue Bridge Centre, back live for the first time since 2019. In the Open Section, a very strong Leinster team (Tom Hanlon, John Carroll, Peter Goodman, Nick FitzGibbon,...

The Lady Milne trials were held in Templeogue over the weekend, and the winning team, which led from start to finish, and scored a comfortable victory, was Joan Kenny, Jeannie Fitzgerald, Teresa Rigney, Siobhan Part, Gilda Pender, and Rebecca Brown-O’Keeffe. They will...

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Best of luck to the Irish Team ("Irish Champions" - John Carroll, Tommy Garvey, Tom Hanlon, Adam Mesbur, and Mark Moran, with NPC Gráinne Barton) competing in the European Champions Cup in Helsinki over the next three days. This is an invitational event for teams from...

The Donegal Congress was held live over the weekend of 4-6 November, and it was great to be back in person in the Abbey & Central Hotels and meet all our bridge friends mingling on the Diamond. As usual there were lots of side events to enjoy too. The winners of...

Here's your chance to represent the British & Irish Lions ... at bridge! RealBridge has organised two special challenge matches between Ireland & the UK ("Up Over") and Australia & New Zealand ("Down Under") on Monday 5 December at 8 p.m. Irish time and...

Congratulations to the two teams who qualified from the Camrose Trials. The winners were Team MORAN (Mark Moran, John Carroll, Tom Hanlon, Conor Boland, Adam Mesbur, and Tommy Garvey), who will represent Ireland in the Camrose Series next year, and the runners-up were...

The upcoming bank holiday weekend sees the Camrose Trials, to be held in the Templeogue Bridge Centre. You'll find full details, including the schedule of play, here. Nine teams have entered, and system cards for their pairings are set out below. Kibitzers are welcome...

The weekend saw the first live mixed championships since 2019, held in the Templeogue Bridge Centre. We were pleased with the turnout, although numbers were lower than pre-pandemic, and there was a strong field in both competitions. In the pairs, Carol-Ann Cummins and...