Eamons Ireland Bridge Stuff

General Bridge News from Ireland and Online

Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Slow and the Stopped

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As a bridge tournament director one of my duties is to keep the game moving. Sometimes one can pick up the 3 boards before the slow players ...

Jimmy the Donplayer converts to Bridge

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Last weekend I went to Belfast to broadcast the Lady Milne Trophy on Bridgebase Online. All good and most people had a good time. Scotland h...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Team Dee Charity Saturday 2pm April 16

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Good afternoon http://www.bridgewebs.com//malahideregional/Team%20Dee%20Flyer%2016.04.2016.pdf There is a charity event in Malahide Regi...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

First Ireland invitational Pairs complete

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Last Friday in the Regent we held the Inaugural (think it means first) Ireland Invitational Pairs event. This event requires a severe amount...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Friday April 08 at 2pm Invitational Pairs Regent Bridge club

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Next Friday we will have the Irish Invitational Pairs Championship. 14 of Irelands top pairs will do battle in a 52 board all play all barom...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Top 14 Invitational Pairs at Regent

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Folks I have been informed that a new event will be hosted at the Regent Bridge Club in the near future. Unfortunately most of ye will no...
Monday, February 22, 2016

CBAI win Peggy Bayer Trophy for 1st time ever

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Link to Peggy Bayer website Last weekend Feb 19-21 The CBAI under 20 squad won the Peggy Bayer Trophy for Home International Teams. I ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

IBU Trials boards 61-80

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So after 60 boards of nip and tuck Team BJ O'Brien led by 5 imps much to my surprise. How could a team playing in top level competition ...
Friday, February 12, 2016

IBU Trials boards 41-60

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Reporting on the IBU Trials final after 40 boards the BJ O'Brien squad led the Moran squad by 4 imps. So onto boards 41-60 out of the 10...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

WEXFORD Bridge Congress IBU Trials 2

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35491852 Looks like the Thai police raided a bridge club and found more then 2 decks of cards Maybe i...
Monday, February 01, 2016

IBU Trials for Budapest 2016 first 20 board set

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Last weekend two squads of Irelands best players faced off in a 100 board final for the honor of representing Ireland in the European champi...
Monday, January 04, 2016

Camrose 2016 Weekend 1 City North ...Meath or Louth I think

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Next weekend January 8th to 10th the CBAI host the first weekend of the Camrose Trophy 6 teams will take part. England Scotland NIBU CBA...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Ruth Giddings Irish bridge legend RIP.

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Multiple Irish National champion (won 6 Nationals in 1 year) found a way to go down in 6D I came across this hand this morning whe...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Interprovincials weekend

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This weekend is Interprovincial weekend. The Interprovincials are a strange event in almost every sport or game. In the GAA nobody wants the...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Adam and Nick win Cavendish Pairs apparently

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Despite several messages to the contrary my information indicates Adam Mesbur and NickFitzgibbon are Cavandish Pairs champions for this year...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Adam and Nick going well so far in Cavandish Pairs

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As stated yesterday .... Today sees the main event ... The Cavandish Pairs ... I note the presence of Adam Mesbur and Nick Fitzgibbon here...

Limerick Congress and Cavandish

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Last weekend I was invited down to Limerick Bridge Congress to do some directing. Directing is a handy job when Diarmuid Reddan is in charge...

Recent News Items

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In my last post Ireland Seniors backboned by Pat Barry and Rex Anderson had cruised into the D'Orsi Bowl Senior quarter finals. Choosing...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

Ireland Senior Bridge Team cruise into QF

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Irelands Senior Bridge team after receiving a late invitation to the World Bridge Finals cruised through the round robin and finished in 3rd...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Conversation with a Cheater

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Last night in my local den of Guinness Declan the Donplayer commiserated with me on the recent cheating scandals in top level bridge. He sta...
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