Playing Career
Irons began his career with local team Queen of the South in 1979. After only one year of the Willie Harkness regime at Palmerston Park and a total of four first team appearances he moved into junior football. Irons joined Kello Rovers, with whom he remained for four years. He returned to the professional game in 1984 with Ayr United. He went on to make 75 league appearances for The Honest Men, scoring twelve goals.
In 1987 he joined Clydebank, making 54 appearances and scoring seven goals, and a year later signed for Dunfermline Athletic. Irons scored the opening goal for Dunfermline in the game that confirmed Queens' relegation in 1989. After 106 appearances and nine goals for the Pars, he was signed by Partick Thistle. He remained at Firhill for two years before joining the sixth professional club of his career, St. Johnstone, in 1993. In three years at McDiarmid Park he made 52 appearances and scored twice.
Irons returned to Palmerston Park under the new regime of Norman Blount to play for a Queen of the South select on 23 April 1995. The opposition in the 2-2 draw was Rangers in a game to mark Queens' 75th anniversary and the opening of the new stand. Other ex players to guest beside Irons that day included Andy Thomson and Ted McMinn. Irons then spent a season with Clydebank in 1996.
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