Eight team will do battle in this year’s Lady Milne trials, to be held in Templeogue Bridge Centre on 10-12 November. As hosts, we qualify TWO teams for this event this year, so the winners of the trials will represent Ireland, and the runners-up the CBAI, in the 2024 Lady Milne Trophy.
You’ll find the Conditions of Contest, including the playing schedule, here.
System cards for the eight teams are:
WHELAN: Maria Whelan/Eileen O’Donovan, Orla McEntee/Deirdre O’Halloran
SYNNOTT: Anne Keating/Frances Kelly, Breda Synnott/Ann Fitzgerald Synnott/Fitzgerald Supplementary Notes
PURDY: Adrienne Purdy/Marie James, Fiona O’Gorman/Rachel Connellan
KENNY: Joan Kenny/Jeannie Fitzgerald, Teresa Rigney/Siobhan Part, Gilda Pender/Hilary McDonagh
MACHALE: Aoife MacHale/Antoinette McGee, Ann Burns/Ann O’Rourke
PHELAN: Lucy Phelan/Louise Mitchell, Valarie Burke-Moran/Ann O’Connell, Carol-Ann Cummins/Sandra Newell Cummins/Newell Supplementary Notes
KELLY: Jean Kelly/Betty Cotter, LizAnn Doyle/Dolores Gilliland
PENDER: Noreen Pender/Kathleen Vaughan, Margaret Farren/Anna Carr
The results will be posted here, and kibitzers are welcome at the trials, subject to the usual rules. Good luck to all the teams – may the best team win, and the best two teams qualify!