The 2008 Home International Series

Team Profiles :Adam Mesbur and Nick Fitzgibbon

Adam is married to Noelette with two teenagers.  He recently resigned as Head of Derivatives Trading with IIB Bank, Dublin and he is now the director of a Luxembourg property company.  He has had a long-standing partnership with Nick FitzGibbon.  This was put on hold in 1991 after Killarney but the partnership has resumed since Salsomaggiore in 2002.  

With Nick, he took a Silver Medal in the Junior European Teams Championships in 1974, bronze in the 1979 European Teams in Lausanne and a Silver medal in the Common Market Pairs of 1980.

Nick is one of only eight Grand Masters in Irish bridge.  His international Bridge Career predates his partnership with Adam in that he played on the Irish Open Team in the Miami Olympiad in 1972, finishing in 12th position.  He has played in 8 European Championships, 6 Olympiads and 3 World Pairs / Rosenblum Teams.  His life revolves around the pony-riding career of his daughter Nicola, where he is required to drive the transport.  Now he must reorganise as he prepares to represent Ireland in their first Bermuda Bowl.