Many congratulations to England, who completed a clean sweep of the home international series this season by winning the Teltscher Trophy (Senior Camrose) over the weekend in Stirling, Scotland. The victorious team was Roger Bryant, Nick Smith, David Kendrick, Trevor...

A reminder to all our female players about the 1st Transnational European Online Women's Teams Championship, which will be held on 7-9 June 2024, on the RealBridge platform. Participants will be able to win masterpoints, medals, and monetary prizes, but equally...

This weekend sees the final home international competition for the season, the Teltscher (Senior Camrose) Trophy in Stirling, Scotland. Our team is Peter Goodman, Terry Walsh, Pat Barry, David Terry, Gay Keaveney, Enda Glynn, and NPC Derek O'Gorman, and they carry the...

The weekend saw the IBU Club Pairs finals for both Masters and Intermediates, the final major competition to return live after covid, having been held online in 2023. The turnout was satisfactory with 38 pairs in the Masters competition and 30 in the Intermediates....

We have had some email issues with both the info@cbai.ie and dermot@cbai.ie accounts for several days. We think we have now resolved them, but if you sent an email to either account since Monday, it MAY not have arrived; if it did not, you will probably have got a...

The weekend saw the finals of the 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) at the Templeogue Bridge Centre, with a fantastic turnout of 66...

We were very sorry to learn of the death of Drogheda bridge stalwart Paddy Brennan. Apart from being a well-known and well-loved player and teacher, Paddy was one of the driving forces behind the recent development of the fantastic ABCD Bridge Centre in Drogheda,...

We were very sorry to learn of the death of former CBAI National President Sheila Gallagher. Sheila served as President, representing the South Midland Region, in 2011, and was for many years the driving force behind the Carlow Congress. She is pre-deceased by her...

Thanks again to all the clubs and players who supported the CBAI Simultaneous Pairs week in March. We moved from February this year to avoid the new St Brigid's Day holiday on the Monday of our traditional Sims week, and the participant numbers for the week increased...

The CBAI's International Committee has decided on dates for the various trials for the 2024/25 season, and Preliminary Notices for all four trials are below. Please note that the dates of all the trials, apart from the Teltscher Trials, have been moved from their...