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Forthcoming Events

All Grades Evening - Monday 26 January

Nellie Cotter Trophy (Pairs) - Thursday 29 January, 7.15 pm

Dunlop Cup, Rounds 11 & 12 - Monday 9 February & Thursday 12 February 

The full calendar of events for the 2025-26 season is available here.

Welcome to Dun Laoghaire Bridge Club
National Women's and Men’s Pairs and Teams

Dún Laoghaire members had some great results in the National Women's and Men’s Pairs and Teams championships in Clane on 17 and 18 January:

Women’s Pairs (Jackson Cup):

4th Place - Rebecca O'Keeffe with Gilda Pender

Best Intermediate Pair - Dorothy Nolan & Maeve Pelly

Women’s Teams (McMenamin Bowl):

2nd Place - Rebecca O'Keeffe, with Gilda Pender, Hilary McDonagh and Ann-Marie Horan

3rd Place - Niamh Harty & Rachel Connellan, with Adrienne Purdy and Marie James

Best Area Master Team - Phil Harnett, Monica Ryan, Breda Scanlan, with Margaret Forde

Best Intermediate Team - Dorothy Nolan, Maeve Pelly, Kathryn Ryan and Rhona Preston

Men’s Teams (Geraldine Trophy):

Best Regional Master Team - Nollaig O’Ceallaigh, Michael Rowan, Patrick Belton and Maurice Coleman

Best Area Master Team - Simon Burrell, with Paul Clinch, Brendan Ruddy and Jeremy James

Congratulations to all!

Fisher Cup - Results

Congratulations to Sriram Chari, who won the Fisher Cup individual event on 15 January, with a great score of almost 63%. Well done also to Joyce Thompson and Angela Dunne, who shared second place. The full scores are in the Results section here.  

Prize Giving and Presentation of Life Membership
  • Prizegiving Jan 2026 1 Millennium Trophy
  • Prizegiving Jan 2026 2 Nora Bastible
  • Prizegiving Jan 2026 3 OKeeffe Cup
  • Prizegiving Jan 2026 4 Leslie Andrews
  • Prizegiving Jan 2026 5 Captains Prize
  • Valerie Hand Life Membership 3
  • Valerie Hand Life Membership 5

We held our semi-annual Prize Giving on Monday 12 January, together with the presentation of Valerie Hand's Life Membership certificate. Pictured above are the trophy winners with Club President John Biggar and Club Captain John Corcoran, and also Valerie with her certificate and celebration cake.

Millennium Trophy - Aidan Clarke and John Clarke

Nora Bastible Trophy - David Little, Piers Segrave-Daly, Alan Pinder and Niamh Friel

O’Keeffe Cup - Mary Murray and Willy Clingan

Leslie Andrews Trophy - Margaret Clarke and John Corcoran

Captain’s Prize - Denise O'Hagan and Maeve Pelly

Congratulations to all our prize winners!

Art in Clarinda
Art in Clarinda

"Iris” - Brenda Biggar

We are delighted to have a number of paintings and other artworks by Club members and friends on display in our building in Clarinda. These are all available for sale by the artists.

New Members

The Club is now open to new members!  Club nights, at 7.30 Monday & Thursday, all grades. Wednesday nights are open nights for Intermediate & Novice players. 

If you wish to become a member please complete, print, sign and scan the following form

New Member Application Form

and forward to the Secretary via email click here

If you have any membership queries please email the Secretary using above link.

National and Regional

National events - see the CBAI website https://www.cbai.ie/ for details.

Confined Regional Master Pairs & Teams Championships, 31 January - 1 February, Templeogue Bridge Centre

Holmes Wilson Cup (Teams), 14-15 February, Mount Wolseley Hotel

Eastern Region events - see the Eastern Region Calendar

Eastern Region Teams Day, Sunday 25 January, Greystones Centre

4Fun Teams, Sunday 22 February, Dún Laoghaire Bridge Club

Results
Club Pairs
Fisher Cup Final Result
Open Pairs (Novice / Intermediate)
Wednesday Downstairs