Held in Moscow from 3-10 December 2011.

This was the eighth European Curling Championships for Ireland since official recognition by the ECF & WCF in 2003.

This year John Furey (5th man in the Mens team) and Louise Kerr (Womens team 3rd player), provided us with an Irish Teams Blog.



Both the Irish National Mens and Womens teams competed in the B leagues and consisted of:

* Robin Gray	(Skip),		* Carolyn HIBBERD     (Skip),
* John Jo Kenny (Third),	* Louise KERR         (Third),
* Bill Gray	(Second),	* Hazel GORMLEY LEAHY (Second),
* Neil Fyfe	(Lead),		* Gillian DRURY       (Lead),
* John Furey	(Alternate).	* Jane PATERSON       (Alternate).

Sat 3rd Dec 07:30 Netherlands (Jaap VAN DORP)	 won - 6 : 5
Sat 3rd Dec 16:30 Wales (Stuart HILLS)		 won - 7 : 4
Sun 4th Dec 16:00 Croatia (Alen CADEZ)		 won - 9 : 5
Mon 5th Dec 08:00 Estonia (Harri LILL)		 won - 8 : 3
Mon 5th Dec 16:00 Poland (Jakub GLOWANIA)	 won - 7 : 3
Tue 6th Dec 08:00 Belgium (Marc SUTER)		lost - 9 : 7
Wed 7th Dec 08:00 England (Alan MACDOUGALL)	 won - 8 : 1
Thu 9th Dec 17:00 PLAYOFF with B1 group - HUNGARY (Krisztian HALL) lost 6 : 4
Fri 10th Dec 8:00 SEMI FINAL - Russia (Alexey TSELOUSOV)           lost 6 : 3
Sat 11th Dec 9:30 BRONZE MEDAL - England (Alan MACDOUGALL)

Sat 3rd Dec 12:30 Finland (Sanna PUUSTINEN)	lost -  3 : 11
Sat 3rd Dec 20:30 England (Fiona HAWKER)	lost -  3 : 14
Sun 4th Dec 12:00 Estonia (Kristine LILL)	lost -  9 : 11
Sun 4th Dec 20:00 Hungary (Ildiko SZEKERES)	lost -  4 : 8
Mon 5th Dec 12:00 Wales (Laura BEEVER)		 won - 12 : 8
Mon 5th Dec 20:00 Poland (Elzbieta RAN)		lost -  6 : 10
Tue 6th Dec 12:00 Slovakia (Gabriela KAJANOVA)	lost -  4 : 6
Tue 6th Dec 20:00 Austria (Karina TOTH)		lost -  3 : 10
Wed 7th Dec 12:00 Spain (Oihane OTAEGI)		lost - 11 : 5