Congratulations to Helena and Paul Redmond, Noel Murphy and Michelle Hickey on winning the prize for the best Area Master team in the Coen Trophy.

The Coen Trophy is the All Ireland Mixed Teams Championship and to win this prize is a great achievement.  👏👏

The Bernard Magee video on Signals and Discards will be shown in the club on Saturday 24th at 10.00.

This is for members only and is free for all members.

For those wishing to purchase tea/coffee etc at the bar could we request that you use your Smart Cards where possible to facilitate the temporary bar people.

Board 22 on Thursday October the 8th was interesting.

East is dealer and with 22 points has an easy 2 club opening, with a nice rebid of 2 NT. Their hand is balanced and they can stop any suit that is led. South has no bid and West relays 2 diamonds. North passes and East makes their rebid of 2 NT.

Now it is up to West. With a 7 card point count, 6 spades AND a void, surely they have to begin thinking about a slam. West is promising 21/22 points and at least 2 spades. So over the 2NT, as West I would bid 3 hearts (transfer to spades) After East completes the transfer (3 spades), I would now bid 4 NT (keycard blackwood) When they show 3 keycards (I have 1) I am 100% bidding 6 spades. (Their 3 keycards only account for 11 or 12 points; I know they have a lot more points to pitch what looks like 3 losing hearts in my hand)

6 spades is easily made. Incidentally 6 NT which yields a slightly better score is in it too, but is a much riskier contract.

14 pairs played this hand on Thursday night, 6 on the A side and 8 on the B. Only 2 pairs bid the slam, both on the A side. Naturally our opposition, Pat Cassidy and Mairead Clifford were one of the 2 pairs. Bridge can be so cruel!

Congratulations to Aileen James and Catherine Smyth seen with Wednesday Captain Liz Butler

2nd Declan Murray and Marian Keane. 7th Orla Duffy and Clare O’Neill. Best B/Novice Janice Dack and Cynthia Halpin. Congratulations.

Congratulations to the following members who moved up a level, this year, in the CBAI grades.

National Master to Life Master

Mary Kelly Rogers & Dave Terry
 

Area Master to Regional Master

Mary Deane, Catherine Deegan, Lilian Foley, Declan Murray &

Patricia Quigley

A1 to Area Master

Noel Hughes, Rosaleen Moody, Noel Murphy & Anna Murray 

A2 to A1

Jean Carberry, Annette Duffy, Leslie Geraghty, Marian Keane, Louise Kelly, Majella McDonald, Deirdre Murphy, Bernadette Murray, Breda O’Mahony, Mary Thackaberry & Peter Tierney

B1 to A2

Eileen Allman, Deirdre Byrne, Martin Byrne, Helen Fagan, Liz Maguire, Rita McNally, & Helen Waugh 

B2 to B1

Brendan Blacklock, Mary N Cahill, Catherine Cavanagh, Michael Cavanagh, Mary Chambers, Gay Connolly, Mary Delahunty, Mary Doyle, Deirdre Dunphy, Trish Gale, Angela Kane, Aidan McIlduff, Catherine McIlduff, Anne McNicholas, Kathy Murphy, Gerard O’Gorman & Tom Ryan

Novice to B2

Maeve Byrne, Anne Dempsey, Philip Dempsey, Hazel Garrett, Mairtín O’Ceallaigh, Lorraine O’Connor, Eileen O’Connor, Bernadette Rooney & Denis Rooney

Following the AGM on 21st May and subsequent Council meeting the following are the council members for 2026/7.

Details of the AGM are available on AGM 2026 Page.

President - Anthony McMackin,

Bar Manager - Patricia Brennan.

Social Secretary - Mary Chambers 

Secretary - Clodagh Gallagher.

Treasurer - Niall Duffy.

Facilities Officer - Kathy Murphy.

Technology Officer - Eilish Timoney.

Tournaments Officer - Mary Deane

The following is one of the items on the Smart Card Information Tab.

How do I check my balance.

If you make any purchase at the bar using your Smart Card you will get a receipt with your balance on it.

You can also go to the Bar with your Smart Card and ask the Bar Person for the balance or for a list of recent transactions. 

You can also get it online through the Smart Club Cloud App (which you can download to your phone) - Click on Smart Card - then on the page which appears click on the three rectangles on the top right of the screen.  These will then allow you to view your Transaction History.

You can logon to SmartClubCloud | Login Page - Go to the Top Up Icon - Scroll down through that and you will see a Transaction History Tab. Fill in the details and this will show your transaction History.

To login online your username will be in the form firstname.surname.number - e.g. joe.soap.567 and you should have set up your own password.