Our thanks to Seamus Costello, who co-ordinated all the activities, and to all those local volunteers who took part in events during national bridge promotion week in August. We had more than thirty major promotions all across the country, in shopping centres,...

Well done to Neil and Barbara Burke and the mid-Leinster Region on a very successful Duais An Uachtarain over the weekend of 21/22 September in Westmanstown. A particularly welcome development was the addition of a one-session Intermediate B & Novice event. Both...

New CBAI President Neil Burke (the nomination of the Mid-Leinster region) took office at the recent AGM of the CBAI in Westmanstown on 6 July. Best wishes to Neil, and to his wife and bridge right-hand-woman Barbara, for a very successful and productive year in...

Daniel O’Donnell popped in to the Templeogue Bridge Centre recently to play a game of bridge and to support the CBAI’s National Bridge Week. Daniel has a strong card-playing background, and took up bridge seriously a few years ago, under the tuition of well-known...

The winner of the President’s Award for 2019 is Sister Moira Lynam of the Mater Hospital Bridge Club, seen here receiving the award from CBAI President Peter O’Meara. The Mater club was established in 1994, but membership had declined, and by the time Sister Moira...

Congratulations to Mid-Leinster Region, which took the top two places at the 4Fun Teams in Westmanstown on Saturday 25 May. The winners of the Frank & Brenda Kelly Trophy were Máire O’Keeffe, Luca Crone (at 16 the youngest winner of a national event in some time,...