Promoting Bridge in Northern Ireland
The Lady Milne Trophy competition will be held in the City North Hotel, Gormanstown over the weekend of 19-21 April 2024.
The team representing the NIBU is:
Anne Fitzpatrick & Mary Kelly-Rogers
Diane Greenwood & Nuala Mooney
Clare Watson & Heather Hill
Reserves: Sandie Millership & Anne Hassan
NPC: Helen Hall
The Inter Provincials competition is taking place on 18 and 19 November 2023.
This event will be ‘Face to Face’ in the Cavan Crystal Hotel.
For details of the Teams representing the Ulster region, click here.
The 1st weekend of the Camrose Trophy will take during the weekend of 5-7 January 2024 in Wales. The team representing the NIBU is:
Ian Hamilton & Ian Lindsay
Rex Anderson & David Greenwood
Sam Hall & Hastings Campbell
Reserves: Pat McDaid & Zrinka Kokot
NPC: Michael McFaul
The Sonya Britton Trophy, a competition played annually between the NIBU and the CBAI, was held on Sat/Sun 12/13th August 2023 in La Mon Hotel and Country Club.
The results can be found here.
A note from Nuala Mooney, Selection Committee:
“On behalf of the selection committee I would like to thank all the players for representing NIBU against CBAI at the weekend. I would like to congratulate the Inter B team which was the best NIBU team finishing 4th overall – Sean & Brenda Strain and John & Jackie Flynn. The 2nd best NIBU team was the Inter A team who finished 7th overall – John Forsythe George Harper and Bill McCormack & Eric Butterworth.“
The Egan Trophy, the IBU All-Ireland Top Teams Championship, was held ‘face to face’ in La Mon Hotel and Country Club, Belfast over the weekend of 27-28 May 2023.
Results can be viewed 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 Junior Camrose and Peggy Bayer Trophy competitions took place last weekend in Altrincham, England. Well done to both teams for all their hard work in preparation and sterling effort at the weekend. Thanks also to Wayne Somerville, Norman Lacey and Sandie Millership for all their help and encouragement with the two teams. Final results
After recent trials for this event, the following team has been selected:
Ian Hamilton & Hastings Campbell
Michael O Kane & Michael Coffey
Clare Watson & Heather Hill
Reserve Pair: Diane and David Greenwood.
Following the completion of trials, the following team has been selected for the 2023 Camrose (Home Internationals):
Ian Lindsay and Ian Hamilton
David and Diane Greenwood
Michael Coffey and Fergal O’Shea
1st Reserve
Harold Curran and Anne Fitzpatrick
NPC
Michael McFaul
The IBU Inter-Provincials competition took place this weekend of 19th/20th November in Templeogue Bridge Centre, Dublin. Congratulations to the 9 Ulster Teams who finished in 2nd place overall.
A special tribute to our Intermediate Team for winning their section.