We regret to announce the recent death of Martin Hayes of Cappawhite, Co Tipperary, who served as CBAI National President in 2008, representing North Munster. Martin had only recently gone into a nursing home, and did not have much time to enjoy his new surroundings....

We have been approached by a number of clubs and members wondering whether they can run bridge tournaments online while real-life bridge may be curtailed by health concerns. The good news is that it is, provided that the organiser has some facility in using the main...

Congratulations to the victorious English team (Janet De Botton, Artur Malinowski, David Bakhshi, Tom Townsend, Glyn Liggins, Alex Hydes, Cameron Small, Jon Cooke, Peter Taylor, John Cox, Ben Norton, Mike Bell, and NPC Peter Hasenson) in the 2020 Camrose Trophy. The...

Best of luck to the Irish team in the second weekend of the Camrose (home international) Trophy being hosted by the Northern Ireland Bridge Union over the weekend of 6-8 March in Belfast. We are represented by Tom Hanlon, Hugh McGann, Grainne Barton, John Carroll,...

We had a huge entry of 120 teams for the Holmes Wilson Trophy (national open teams championship) in Mount Wolseley over the weekend of 22-23 February. The winners were the western quartet of Enda Glynn, Gay Keaveney, Ciaran Coyne, and David Walsh. Second place went to...

The CBAI Teaching Committee is delighted to announce that eleven new bridge teachers have been certified under the Association's new teacher programme, which culminated in an assessment weekend in Greystones Bridge Centre over the weekend of 8/9 February. The general...

Well done to CBAI President Neil Burke and his team on a very successful Novice & Intermediate Congress in the Westgrove Hotel, Clane over the weekend of 14-16 February, and thanks to all who attended, especially those for whom this was a first national...

The two teams representing Ireland at the junior home international championships in Newport, Wales, over the weekend of 14-16 February both did well without taking home any prizes. In the Peggy Bayer Trophy (Under-21) event, we fielded a very young and inexperienced...