Eamons Ireland Bridge Stuff

After a disappointing day yesterday when Ireland Open lost to Belgium and Serbia when wins were required and lost against a strong Bulgarian...

On Bridgebase Online .. 3pm Ireland Norway .. 540pm Ireland Bulgaria Today Ireland Open start the day with a match against 19th place Bel...

Note .. 1220 Ireland France 1500 Ireland Monaco will be live on Bridgebase Online. Today June 22nd 2016 at the European Bridge Championsh...

In Round 14 Ireland defeated Croatia 51-23 ..I think this was the match where Hanlon bid a 7NT based on Spade King being a working finesse. ...

Sunday June 19th and we await with trepidation Cavan versus Tyrone in the Ulster GAA semi final. Tyrone are damn good with many All Ireland...

Saturday 18th of June dawns. Loads of sport on the TV. Some think Ireland are going to get something out of Belgium in the soccer. The more ...

Ireland took on Portugal in Round 7. Portugal were struggling in 30th place of 37 teams. So hopefully some VPs coming. Again we look at the ...

Ireland Open Team started the day with a match against Finland. Finland with no great bridge pedigree might be beatable. However Finland is ...

At the European Bridge championships today Ireland had a fine day. 59.84 VPs collected out of a possible 80. Ireland started this morning wi...

Last Friday June 10th we had the third and final session of the inaugural Ireland Invitational Pairs. The venue was the Regent Bridge Club a...

Tomorrow Friday June 10th at the Regent Bridge Club Waterloo Road starting at 1300 hours we will have the final Day of the Ireland Invitatio...

Sunday morning and the Mixed Teams trials are in full flow. 12 boards compared across 8 tables and 73 imps swopped. So that is boards 1-3 ...

This weekend in Templogue (I think) we have Mixed Teams Trials. Seems loads of teams fancy their chances of qualifying for some Mixed event ...

This afternoon in the Regent Bridge Club at 1400 hours we will have the 2nd episode of the Ireland Invitational Pairs http://www.bridgewe...

Hand 12 above was declared in 3N and 4NT many times . Now 12 declarers out of 30 managed less then 12 tricks. I don't get this at all...

Back on January 31 2016 the IBU trials had been turned upside down. The underdogs known as Team O'Brien had doggedly hung on for 60 bo...

The Ireland Open Team backboned  by Mark Moran and Rory Boland sneaked past a powerful Bulgarian squad in Round 7 ....I guess the quarter fi...

Team Moran are currently on vugraph. Monday May 02 430pm playing in Round 7 of Spring 4s. I went to the funeral of Malahide and Regent bri...

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 ...

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...