Ireland Lady Milne Trials End

The CBAI (Contract Bridge Association of Ireland) Lady Milne Trials ended after 2 weekends of female battle.

Joan Kenny Teresa Rigney Valerie Hand Aileen O'Keeffe Gilda Pender Hilary McDonagh form one of the teams to represent Ireland in the Lady Milne.

Mary Finn Jill Kulchyky Lucy Phelan Louise Reddan Bernie Lodewijks and Brid Kemple
form the other team to represent Ireland in the Lady Milne.

Full details of these trials can be found on www.fob.ie

Bernie Lodewijks and Brid Kemple are new caps and also a new partnership which formed recently. Bernie lives in Galway with husband Jeroen and in the past was active in Malahide Regional , Swords and the Regent Bridge Club.

Brid Kemple lives with partner and well known Irish international bridge player Terry Walsh.
Has claimed in the past she is a better declarer player then yours truly. However now she is an international player so maybe she is.

Lucy and Louise played in the Open Camrose last season when Ireland had 2 teams.
I don't know if they have Lady Milne history. However one husband John claims Lucy is the
best player in Waterford. I used to be the best in Dungarvan briefly when I visited.

The other 8 players have represented various Irish Lady Teams in the past so I don't need to write too much about them. Maybe tomorrow after I have done some research.

I went down to Templogue to catch the end of the trials. Jonathan Mathers was putting everything away. I gave a little help taking down screens and tables since nobody else was helping. Martin Keane arrived in just in time to do the hard job of re arranging the tables in the Templeogue Bridge Centre format. The venue was certainly not left the way it was received. People forget that somebody has to tidy up after them.

I heard some players thanking Brian Lawlor so he must have run a good show.

This years Lady Milne Trophy will be held in City North Hotel just off the motorway near Gormanston and  Balbriggan.

I saw in John Comyn Sunday Independant article that some chap does not like the new method used for teams scoring in World Bridge Federation. My own understanding is that lots of research went into this new method over the last few years. Details can be found below.

http://www.worldbridge.org/Data/Sites/1/media/documents/regulations/WBFAlgorithms.pdf

Further discussion is here
http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/55389-wbf-vp-scale-changes/

I had a feeling that these teams tables should be adjusted somewhat for Butler Pairs but Thomas Roche explained to me yesterday that the tables are fine for Butler Pairs as the datum is like an average of several teams scores .... It will do me for now.

Thanks
Eamon Galligan