Promoting Bridge in Northern Ireland
The Sonya Britton Trophy, a competition played annually between the NIBU and the CBAI, is due to be played in La Mon Hotel and Country Club on the 16/17th August 2025.
The Selection Committee welcomes expressions of interest from Intermediate B (players with less than 2 Red Points) and Intermediate A (players with more than 2 Red Points and less than 10 Red Points).
Players in either of these two categories who are interested in playing in this event can record their interest here.
The Lady Milne Trophy will be hosted by England over the weekend of 11-13 April 2025. Following recent trials, the Selection Committee has agreed that the Team selected to represent Northern Ireland is as follows:
Anne Hassan & Sandie Millership
Anne Fitzpatrick & Mary Kelly-Rogers
Heather Hill & Helen Hall
Reserve Pair: Norma Irwin & Kathleen Cassidy
NPC: Harold Curran
The 1st weekend of the Camrose Trophy will place over the weekend of 3rd to 5th January 2025 at Adamton House Hotel, Prestick, Scotland. The teams representing Northern Ireland and the NIBU can be found here.
The second weekend of the trials for the Inter-Provincials took place over the weekend of 12-13 October 2024 at Kelvin Malone Bridge Centre . Final results here.
Trials for the Lady Milne Trophy 2025 will be held at Kelvin Malone Bridge Club over the weekend of 23/24th November 2025. England are hosting the event over the weekend of 11/13th April 2025.
Closing date for entries: 5pm on Sunday 27th October 2024.
Entry fee is £50 per person, to be paid by the closing date.
Bank Details
A/c Name: Northern Ireland Bridge Union; A/c No: 15029055; Sortcode: 980140
Click here to enter.
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 25-26 May 2024.
CBAI Teams x 6
NIBU Teams x 4
Final scores here
The Teltscher Trophy was held at Stirling University in Scotland from 17-19 May.
Scotland led the event until the last board when they were overtaken by England who won by a fraction of a VP
Full details can be found on the RealBridge Kibitz site https://kibitz.realbridge.online
The Lady Milne Trophy competition was held in the City North Hotel, Gormanstown over the weekend of 19 – 21 April 2024. Well done to our Northern Ireland team on their sterling effort. Final results can be found here.
From left to right:
Anne Fitzpatrick, Sandie Millership, Anne Hassan, Helen Hall (NPC), Clare Watson, Heather Hill and Mary Kelly-Rogers.
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.
