The Irish senior mens playdowns take place this weekend at the Dumfries Ice Bowl.

There are two teams entered. The defending champions are skipped again by Peter Wilson with PJ Wilson, David Smith (new to the team this year) and Tom Roche.

The other team are the familiar line-up of Johnjo Kenny, Bill Gray, David Whyte, Tony Tierney and David Hume with new ‘sixth man’ Neil Fyfe.

They will play the best of five and the game times are:

• 6pm Friday 10th January,
• 10am and 3pm Saturday 11th January
• 9am and 2pm Sunday 12th January

(if as a best of five it is not decided before then.)

The games will be webcast and you can access them via this link.