Promoting Bridge in Northern Ireland
The Annual General Meeting of the NIBU was held at Kelvin Malone Bridge Centre on Sunday 25th June at 2pm. . Papers and reports tabled at the AGM are available in the ‘Members Only Section/Council and AGM’ on the website. Draft Minutes to follow.
Presentation of Trophies:
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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
The Teltscher Trophy takes place this coming weekend, 19-21 May 2023. This year the Welsh Bridge Union are hosts and the venue is The Coldra Newport, NP18 2YG.
Good luck to Team Northern Ireland, comprising:
Ian Hamilton & Hastings Campbell
Diane & David Greenwood
Clare Watson & Heather Hill
NPC: Sandie Millership
For more details on the timetable and ‘live’ results, click 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.
The Northern Ireland Mixed Pairs, (a red point event) was due to be held on Sunday 7 May 2023 on BBO. This event has now been CANCELLED due to lack of entries.
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.