Promoting Bridge in Northern Ireland
Sad news on the death this week of Rosarie Heatherington. She was a well-known and much-loved player in the NIBU. Rosarie taught numerous bridge classes and managed to bring her teaching expertise and sense of humour to the task. Her classes were always popular and many local bridge players started to play in local clubs because of her.
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Congratulations to Rex Anderson’s team on winning the Senior League:
Rex Anderson, David Greenwood, Paul Tranmer, Wayne Somerville
Harold Curran’s team finished second followed by Ian Lindsay’s team who had led the event until the last round
Full results can be viewed here
This event will be held on Sunday 4 June 2023 at 2 pm in U3A Premises, Gransha Gounds, Derry. This is a one session event at £10 per head, inc. tea/coffee. Trophies will be awarded for the winning Senior and Intermediate teams. For more details, click here.
This event was recently held in the Mercure Hotel, Perth.
Final results can be found here.
Well done to our Northern Ireland team on their sterling effort.
The IBU Seniors Congress was held mid week from 18-20th April 2023.
Congratulations to Aileen Timoney for organising a very successful at the Cavan Crystal Hotel.
Results:
Gala Open Pairs (56 Pairs): Helen Hall & Michael McFaul
Congress Pairs (40 Pairs) : Gay Keaveney & Peter Goodman
Congress Teams (18 Teams) Pat McDevitt, Gay Keaveney, Peter Goodman and Enda Glynn
Full results for congress here.
This festival is to be held on BBO from 10-16 April 2023.
For more details click here.
This event took place on BBO on Friday 17 March at 7 pm.
Winners: Teresa McKearney & Brian Clarke.
Runners Up: John Forsythe & Eric Lesage. Full results here.
Kevin Hinds taught himself bridge from a book by Goren at the age of seventeen, forty five years ago. Since then he became one of the most accomplished players in City of Derry Bridge Club and also in the surrounding areas of counties Donegal, Tyrone and Derry. Although Kevin was a professional golfer at the age of twenty Bridge was his first love.
Kevin had a very successful career and won numerous cups mainly when playing with Tony McDermott or Seamus Donaghy. He was always a most affable partner but a feared opponent as both his declarer and defender play were of the highest quality.
He served as Chairman of the NIBU in 2008/09 and represented NIBU when playing against CBAI. In fact in that competition he, along with his partner James McAllister, won a very valued silver medal for being the most successful pair.
This competition took place on BBO on Friday 24 February 2023.
Congratulations to the following winners:
Overall: Liz McArdle & Mary Flynn
Intermediate ‘B’: Pat Braden & Liz Whitall
Final Results