The IBU Club Pairs will be held online on BBO on Saturday 13 May at 11:00, with separate competitions for Master and Intermediate grades. These are open-entry competitions this season, so it is not necessary to have qualified via a club competition. Entries remain...

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 excellent numbers attending....

We are delighted to announce that Teresa O’Reilly, from Bailieborough, County Cavan, has been selected as this year’s winner of the President’s Merit Award. This award is designed to recognise the unsung heroes and heroines of Irish bridge - the people who do all the...

The Confined Pairs and Teams Championships, for the Lambert and Cooper Cups respectively, will take place in the Templeogue Bridge Centre over the weekend of 6-7 May, along with the National Novice Pairs Championship, for the JJ Murphy Trophy. The Lambert Cup (Pairs)...

it was a case of so near and yet so far for our Lady Milne (women's home international championship) team over the weekend in Perth, Scotland. The team (Jeannie Fitzgerald, Joan Kenny, Rebecca Brown-O'Keeffe, Gilda Pender, Teresa Rigney, Siobhan Part, and NPC Paul...

The IBU Seniors Congress was held in the Cavan Crystal Hotel from 18-20 April, and was very well-attended. Great to see the numbers back for this very popular event, which suffered a bit last year as the very first congress to be played live after the covid...

The IBU All-Ireland National Championship, for the Moylan Cup, took place in Malahide Regional Bridge Centre over the weekend of 15/16 April, with a full-house of 40 pairs competing. The prizewinners were: 1st Joan Kenny & Jeannie Fitzgerald; 2nd Tom Hanlon &...

The National Pairs Championships were held in the Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, over the weekend of 1/2 April, for the Davidson Cup (Open), Laird Cup (Intermediate A), and Civil Service Cup (Intermediate B). This was the first live running of these events, amongst the most...