The Three Horse Shoes caused a
major upset in Cork City darts when they won
the Cork Charity Cup 3-a-side
competition at Ardmanning House.
Competing in the 3rd. Division
of the Cork City and District League the Horse Shoes
were complete outsiders on the
night but their trio of John Kiely, Gary Walsh
and Billy Whyte were in
exceptional form and they captured the title with a
hard-fought
3-2 win over the Arches Bar in
the final.
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Three Horse Shoes
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Kay O'Carroll hit two maximum
180's en route to winning the ladies' singles. Stephen
O'Connor won his second county-ranked competition in a
six-week period when he defeated John O'Shea in the final of
the 'Tash' Madden Memorial Trophy.
Nicola O'Donovan defeated
Sharon Buckley in the ladies' decider. James Dowdall won the
youths' under-17 title while Ryan Courtney won the under-13
competition.
The Brass Razoo from
Clonakilty won the Mid-West 3-a-side tournament with victory
over the Millwheel (Kinsale)
in the final. Claire O'Donovan won the ladies' singles.
In the Cobh League the Village
Inn 'A' team defeated the Quarry Cock 'A' in the final
of the Jack Doyle Shield
(Div.1). The score was 4-2 and Dave Donachie was the hero
for the winners with a 115
check-out to clinch the title.
In the final of Div. 2 the
Wolfe Tone won the Daunt Shield with a 4-2 victory over the
Eddie Cull continued his quest
to secure enough rankings points to ensure his place
on the Republic of Ireland
team next season when he travelled to the 'Big Smoke' for
the Dublin Open and the INDO
Irish Masters.
He reached the semi-finals of
the Dublin Open where he lost to the eventual winner,
Aodhgan O'Neill (Cavan), and
he picked up another valuable point in the Masters by
reaching the last sixteen.
The Capwell Bar retained the
Mick Fowler Memorial Trophy when they defeated the
Roisin Dubh Bar in the final
of Division (1) of the Cork City and District League.
The Goblet won the Liam Downey
Memorial Trophy with a victory over the Arches (1)
in the 2nd. Division final
while the Three Horse Shoes continued their good run with a
win over the Angler's Bar in
the 3rd. Division decider.
Nicola O'Donovan reached the
final of the Ladies' Singles in the Limerick Open where
she lost to the Irish number
one, Maureen Kelly (Carlow) and on the last day of the
month she reached the
semi-finals of the Ladies' Singles at the Mayo Open.
October 2003
O'Sullivan
Memorial Shield at Ardmanning House on Friday, September 5th. and on
the following Sunday he reached the quarter-finals of his section of
the Irish Qualifiers of the Paddy Power World Grand Prix.
Nicola
O'Donovan from Cork City has been called up for the Republic of Ireland
Ladies' team for 
