ANOTHER high-octane Irish Weekend at Stranraer Ice Rink has reached its conclusion with a new winner for 2024. The top team this year are Fiona Spain with her rink of Fraser Ewan, Wendy Hutton and Andrew Sommerville. The runners-up in the high road were Peter Wilson, Louise Kerr, Richard Stevenson and Jessica Maxwell. In the low road, the winners were Frazer Hare, Eva Hare, Sean Clemmie and Holly Clemie. The runners- up were Bill Gray, Nina Clancy, Walter Scott and Kerrin Forsyth. The consolation prize of the much coveted Tayto crisps went to Tommy Campbell, Geraldine Murphy, Keir Thomson ..read more

Dumfries once again plays host to the Irish Men’s Championship as two teams are set to contest a best-of-three series to determine Team Ireland at the next European Championships. John Wilson Defending champions Team Wilson are aiming to defend their crown after retaining Ireland’s status in B-Division at the 2023 Europeans in Perth. Skip John Wilson is once again supported by third Kyle Paradis and lead Craig Whyte. Andrew Gilmore will step in as second instead of James Russell. The team are supported by their coach, Eoin McCrossan. Although they are no strangers to the international stage, t ..read more

The 2024 Four Nations was a successful outing for the Irish Curling Association as they won two of the three trophies they contested, beating Scotland and England, but lost to Wales by a single shot in a tight tussle for the triple crown. This year’s event was held at the Flower Bowl near Preston, England and a small band of Irish players travelled up, down and across the Atlantic for the chance to represent the association. Things started well for the Irish with two contests against Wales on Friday night. Dale Sinclair skipped the women to a handsome win, with Kyle Paradis doing enough to gi ..read more

The 2023 European Championships B-Division kicks off this Saturday in Perth, Scotland with Ireland’s men set to take part. The competition, which runs from 18th-25th November, marks the second year the Irish men will compete at this level after a recent successful return. The team of John Wilson, Kyle Paradis, James Russell, and Craig Whyte supported by coach Eoin McCrossan made the playoff round last year and will be hoping for more of the same. The competition will see 16 teams compete in two groups of 8, battling it out for two promotion spots to next year’s top tier. The top three teams o ..read more

THERE was a real ding-dong battle last Sunday for the Fyfe Trophy, presented to the ICA by the Fyfe family, in memory of John and Isobel Fyfe. It is also the annual ICA Open Championships. After four games of four ends, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, the winners were the team of Kyle Paradis, Craig Whyte, Steve Callan and Carolyn Hibberd. The silver medals went to Neil Fyfe, Ross Barr, Frances Whyte and Geraldine Murphy. The bronze medal went to Eoin McCrossan, Alison Fyfe, John Burns and John Dunlop. Also skipping teams to the bottom, in descending order, were John Wilson, Da ..read more

CLARE has represented Ireland internationally over 50 times, so she gets an updated set of questions to answer, as we know so much about her already! Name? – Clare McCormick aka Forbes Age? – Ancient  Occupation? – Retired  In-turn or out-turn? Yes Best ever curling memory? – Bronze medal  If you had had to switch careers, what job would you have done? -Gardener Best / worst subjects at school? – Art Who’d be your four ideal dinner guests? –  Earliest curling related memory? ­– Favourite curling destination and why? – Chambéry. Cheeses a ..read more

It’s back folks! Profile time. Let’s all find out a bit more about the Irish team at the world mixed in Aberdeen. Starting with skip Brian… Name: Brian Mathews Age: 39 Occupation: Accountant Status: Married Children: 1  Years curling: 27 (?) Home club: Leinster Favourite sport to watch:  Soccer Favourite sport to play:  Curling Who would I like to meet: Favourite TV show: Simpsons Favourite holiday destination: Hawaii Favourite Irish curler:  Johnjo Kenny (thanks for being our coach!) Most prized possession: My daughter, Aoibhín ..read more

Team Ireland are ready to go for the first WCF event of the season as Curl Aberdeen plays host once again to the 2023 World Mixed Curling Championships. Ireland are represented by Brian Mathews, Clare McCormick, Jason Medhurst and Stephanie McDonald after their victory in March at the Irish Mixed Championship in Dumfries.  Below: Brian, Stephanie, Jason and Clare History will be made as it marks the first time that the ICA is represented by a team with 3 members based on the island of Ireland. In addition to this, it will be Brian and Jason’s international debuts. We asked Brian a few qu ..read more

THE first ICA game of the new season took place at Greenacres Ice Rink today with four rinks on the ice. Neil Fyfe’s team were the winners after a victory over Arran Cameron’s team and in the other game David Whyte’s rink got the better of Alison Fyfe’s foursome. Great to get back on the ice and wonderful to see friends old and new there. Pictured are winners Maria O’Neill, Charlotte Tierney, Neil Fyfe and John Dunlop The post Opening bonspiel at Geenacres appeared first on irish-curling.org ..read more

THE Irish will gather at Greenacres Curling Cub for the opening bonspiel of the new season tomorrow at 12 noon. Four teams are taking part and here they are: Arran Cameron                 vs           Neil Fyfe Frances Whyte                                 Charlotte Tierney John Burns      ..read more