The World Bridge Federation will hold a Women's Online Spring Festival on BBO from 10 to 16 April, with several competitions each day, and lots of prizes and both WBF and BBO Masterpoints on offer. The daily schedule is: Tournament European Time (CET) NY Time (EDT)...

Thanks again to all the clubs and players who supported the CBAI Simultaneous Pairs week in February. The numbers were still very good, in spite of the new bank holiday on the Monday of our traditional Sims week - it is our intention to move the event next season to...

The weekend of 24/26 March sees the Clonmel Congress in the Talbot Hotel (Clonmel Park), with the usual full schedule of competitions. You...

The IBU Inter-County Open and Intermediate Teams Championships, for the Burke and O'Connor Trophies respectively, were held in the Cavan Crystal Hotel over the weekend of 11/12 March. The prizewinners were: Burke Trophy: 1st Place: Dublin South - Peter Goodman, Aoife...

The recent Tralee International Bridge Congress 2023, held in the Rose Hotel, raised €850 for St Vincent de Paul in a charity fundraising competition. Pictured (l-to-r) are Claire Carmody from The Rose Hotel, Tom Hardiman, Hugh O Connell President of the Congress,...

The new Chief Medical Officer, Breda Smyth, recent published an open letter directed at older people within the Irish community. In it, she encourages people to return to doing the things that they love, but abandoned during covid, and specifically to "re-join local...

The CBAI hosted the second weekend of the 2023 Camrose Trophy, in CityNorth Hotel, Gormanstown, over the weekend of 3-5 March. The event went off well; thanks to our TD team of Fearghal O'Boyle and Mairead Basquille, our vugraph co-ordinator Eamon Galligan (assisted...

The Regent Bridge Club, 25 Waterloo Road, Dublin 4, will hold a special pairs competition for Beginners and Novices on Friday 10 March at 19:30. This event, which is sponsored by Gavin Burke Solicitors, and is open to non-members of the Regent, provides a perfect...