Our 47th Donegal International Bridge Congress took place over the  weekend of 1st, 2nd and 3rd November 2024

See attached Brochure

a huge thank you to all who participated in the Congress from all areas in any way either by sponsorship, playing in the various events and by supporting the draw.
A special word of thanks to the Tournament Directors, the committee, regional officers and volunteers who helped in any way over the weekend  

THANK YOU EVERYONE !!

A huge Congratulations to all of the winners of the Player of the Year prizes which were presented at the Buncrana Open Cup competition on Sunday 20th October 2024. Well done to all winners 👏👏

Overall winner - Margaret Farren

Second Place - Shaun McNutt

Third Place - Shaun Coll

Best A Marion Gallagher and Phyllis Murphy

Best B Mairead McDaid and Breege Fleming

Congratulations to Anna Carr and Margaret Farren members of Moville and Carndonagh Bridge Clubs, on their great win at the weekend in Dublin, of the President’s Prize, pictured receiving their prizes from CBAI President Catherine Byrne.

Extract from Irish Times 17 September 2024

Margaret Farren and Anna Carr proved best of the 82 pairs that contested the first National Championship of the season, the CBAI president Catherine Byrne's prize (Duais an Uachtarain) in Portmarnock at the weekend.  It was the Donegal pair's third win in a national competition; they won the women's pairs (Jackson Cup) in 2022 and 2023 - the first of these was contested online during the Covid pandemic.  Farren and Carr are having a good year; in April they were selected to play in the women's home international championship (Lady Milne trophy), the first Donegal players, male or female, to achieve such distinction.

Phillis Murphy and Marion Gallagher the winners of the Cloughaneely Open Cup being presented with the cup by Cloughaneely President Shaun Coll

Player of the Year 2023-2024

1  Margaret Farren

2  Shaun McNutt

3  Shaun Coll

Intermediate A Player of the Year

1  Marion Gallagher

=  Phylis Murphy

Intermediate B Player of the Year

1  Breege Fleming

=  Mairead Mc Daid

Congratulations to Margaret Doherty,

our new Regional President,

nominated by Moville Bridge Club

who assumed office on 30th May 2024 at our Regional AGM.

Congratulations to all of the winners at the recent

Regional Presidents Golf/Bridge day held on Thursday 22nd May 2025

Golf winners - 

Best Lady - Fiona McDwyer

Best Gent - Jim O’Sullivan

Congratulations to all who participated in the event  

Bridge Winners

First - Pauric Burke and Una Carthy

Second - Shaun McNutt and John Gerard Doherty

Third - Anna Carr and Margaret Farren

Best Intermediate - Marion Gallagher and Phyllis Murphy

and Marjorie Hegarty and Valerie Von Hof

Special Prize - Joe Boyle and Jimmy O’Donnell

Thank you to everyone who participated in this event  

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The CBAI Women’s and Men’s Pairs and Teams event took place over the weekend 11th-12th January 2025 in Clane, Co Kildare. Our lady members who travelled to participate did the Region proud in the competitions.  
In the pairs event Anna Carr and Margaret Farren took 3rd place out of 76 pairs, with less than 1% between 1st and 3rd place.  
Full Results

In the teams event Margaret and Anna were outright winners with their team mates Mairead Haugh and Roisin de Jong and in 4th place were Ita O’Sullivan, President Elect and Marion Gallagher, County Development Officer with their teammates Sonya Hills and LizAnn Doyle

See full results here

The girls have done it again, and have brought the cup back to Donegal!! 

Congratulations to the winning team in the recent Donegal v Derry Teams competition which was held at the Drummond Hotel, Ballykelly and was hosted by Limavady Bridge Club, winners of the competition in 2023. 

Pictured below the winning team of

Margaret Farren, Anna Carr, Marion Gallagher and Ita O'Sullivan

being presented with the prize by Keith Bloomfield, President of Limavady Bridge Club.