Bearpark Curran will play in Senior Camrose 2014

Steve Bearpark and Brendan Curran will represent Ireland in the Senior Camrose along with antepost favourites Michael and Padraig O'Briain and the imp collecting David Jackson and Tom Gibson. See www.fob.ie for all details of the senior Camrose ..

Well done to Steve and Brendan .. I think this is there first international cap. Well done to the other two pairs also but they have circled this block before.

I heard one match was played in the dark as there was a powercut in Templogue ..or maybe Martin Keane was missing and he had the keys for the light switch .. Martin is always around looking after the little things and big things in Templogue Bridge  Centre.

Visitors to Templogue for National competitions and Trials etc should remember this is a venue belonging to 5 local clubs(I think) and needs to be left in a tidy condition ready for the normal club games. Often I see bidding boxes left thrown on the floor or half the cards out on the table.
Luckily there is a budding Martin Keane around in Jonathan Mathers who gets the place shipshape after CBAI events. We need to be aware of all the people who tidy up after bridge events all around the country and help them as non-club events need clubs to lend them their premises.

Out in Malahide we will run the Schools Pairs in December .. A small issue of the Xmas Party the night before was no problem for Malahide .. "We will just get the cleaners in at 8am .." they said .

Ireland Imp Pairs tonight at 9pm

Senior Camrose Trials

I am currently in Templogue at the Senior Camrose Trials. I am seated near a table where David Jackson and Tom Gibson are playing against Aidan and Ena Cleary.
The bidding went 1C 1D 1H 3N 4D 4S 4N 5C 5D and so Jacko is at the helm in 5D.
It is board 7 of the final match. The play is proceeding slowly as is Jackos style. He is starting to motor now. All the trumps are drawn and Jacko claims some tricks.
Board 8 is placed on the table.
Looking around the room 7 tables are in play comprising of the 14 pairs involved.
With 1 round to go I see about 14 kibitzers watching carefully. Up at the directors table we have another group of 5 seated around director Brian Lawlor watching the live scoring coming in.
Thomas McCormac flanks Risteard de Barra with John Comyn and Maureen Pattinson on the other side. Brian directs operations in the middle. On the periphery as always at every major event lurks George Ryan. George is after reading this and said .. "I forgot to shave today but we won't mention that " .. Now George is gone away for another smoke I guess.
Meanwhile back at the bridge board 9 is on the table and Jacko is at the helm again in some contract.
The leading scores entering the last match.

Full results can be found on

http://www.fob.ie/

And board 10 hits the table. Terry Walsh and Brid Kemple watch carefully improving their knowledge of bridge from the masters.

Then I went outside with Michael McGloughlin and he told me some information on the BJ-McDonagh versus Godden Dowling match.

One board 1NT 2C 2D 4N and we are not sure if they were on same wavelength. 6C went one off.

Godden and Dowling then bid 7NT and a club lead took away the choice of finesses. 

Next BJ rolled home a good 3NT..

Then Godden Dowling defended 3H doubled with apparently 6D available their way.

So the match could be even after those 4 boards. 

Trials matches beginning to wind up now and you will have to go to 

http://www.fob.ie/

for the final results later.

I have to google Georges car and see whats the story with a red light flashing.

I think its the imobilizer .

Ireland place 2nd in Cavendish Teams

On Tuesday 22nd of October the Irish Camrose Team of Mark Moran Rory Boland Thomas Hanlon Tommy Garvey Hugh McGann and John Carroll placed 2nd in the prestigious Cavendish Teams.
This was a tremendous performance as the same team expressed satisfaction with their 7th placing in the preliminary event the same weekend when a field of 56 teams started. While not as momentous as the European Silver medal gathered by Team Silver which included the last 4 of the above team along with Adam Mesbur and Nick Fitzgibbon it is a tremendous performance.
You may remember Adam and Nick won the Gold medal at the recent European Senior Pairs during the summer. So thats all good ..

http://www.cavendishmonaco.com/index.php?lang=en

Information on these performances can be found at the above website.

Also records of some of the matches can be accessed via Bridge Library on Bridgebase online .

Hanlon and Carroll will play the B final in Cavendish Pairs for Pairs 13-24 tomorrow.
Only the top 12 pairs qualified for the final. Given the strength of the field here it is quite a good
effort.

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Senior Camrose Trials this weekend in Templogue Bridge Centre.
Maybe some information will appear on CBAI website.
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Intermediate Novice Congress takes place in Citywest next weekend Oct 25th to Oct 27th.
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Irelands Camrose Team going well in Monaco

Irelands Camrose Team of Mark Moran Rory Boland Hugh McGann Thomas Hanlon Tommy Garvey and John Carroll had a strong day in the first 5 qualifying rounds of the Cavandish Teams. This is a major Teams event with lots of the worlds best players involved.
The results can be found at
http://www.cavendishmonaco.com/index.php?lang=en

Ireland played on vugraph in two matches today and those matches can be found and reviewed via Bridgebase Online.

Hopefully the weather stays fine tomorrow and Ireland continues to play well
Should be on vugraph tomorrow morning about 915 as they are leaders.
However as Ireland has been on vugraph 2 times already who knows.

Team Barton qualifies for quarter finals in Monaco Sunday morning.

Team Barton (Mark Moran Rory Boland Hugh McGann Thomas Hanlon Thomas Garvey John Carroll Grainne Barton npc) qualified for the quarter finals of Patton de Monaco this evening.
Play starts in the morning with the quarter final match against Lavazza from Italy starting at 915am Irish time.
There is only one match on BBO so it will probably be the leaders PRI so our lads have to win
to get on vugraph in semi final ..
 
"We over the moon the most incredible field ever .. " an NPC said
"Nice early morning versus Lavazza in quarter final said one of our players.
"Pretty good result when you look at the kind of company we were in" said another.

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www.fob.ie for Spiro Cup running scores ..

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http://www.cavendishmonaco.com    if anybody wants to examine the results in detail

Patton Teams in Regent November 02 SAturday

http://www.federation-bridge.mc/Welcome-to-the-Monegasque-Bridge.html

At the above link you can find Monaco Teams .. An Irish Team is playing in this event which happens just before the Cavandish Teams and Pairs.
There is vugraph coverage from 1400 today but teams can play afternoon or evening session in round 1. I don't know when Ireland will play yet.

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Spiro Cup and Coen Trophy take place in Templogue on Saturday Sunday.
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I was down at Limerick Congress last weekend .. Great road from Dublin .. 1 hour 45 minutes from Swords to Limerick Tunnel on a Saturday morning. I missed the turn off then .. Caherdavin and nearly saw Bunratty Castle ..
I was directing/scoring but Des Houlihan allowed me play his final match as he had another engagement.
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Camrose Trials Final Weekend on Bridgebase Oct05 Oct06

Good evening all

Tomorrow morning we will start broadcasting the Ireland Camrose Trials.

The current standings are at

www.fob.ie

The schedule of vugraph for the weekend is at

http://www.bridgebase.com/vugraph/schedule.php

A screen shot of Saturdays vugraph

We will show the leading team after each match against that rounds opponents.

This is planned in advance and has been agreed by those in charge

So the first match tomorrow will be Martin Brady versus Rory Boland as the Boland team

is leading

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As per previous blog Miriam McConville and Paul Porteus went on to win the Duais an Uachtarainn Trophy or President Thomas McCormacs prize.

Strangely the Regional Masters Prize was picked up by an Area Master pair

Mary Kavanagh a rising intermediate player and her partner Carol Hawkins a long time member of 

They play out of  Malahide and Bankers  respectively

www.malahideregionalbridgeclub.com

www.bankersbridgeclub.com

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