Results of Youths’ Open Singles at Shirley’s Bar, Kells, Co. Kilkenny.

Saturday, June 17^th., 2006.

Winner - Patrick Meaney (Kilkenny)     Runner-up - David Coyne (Kilkenny)

S/finalists - Ryan Courtney (Cork) and Sean McArdle (Dublin)

Q/finalists - Sean Fleming (Roscommon), David Colcannon (Roscommon], Gerald Murphy (Cork) and T.J.Dixon (Louth)

 Paul Donovan Wins in Cork

Ian O’Connor, Paul Donovan, Darren O’Hea and Damian O’Hea.

An Under-18 Youths’ Singles competition was organised in conjunction with the 2006 Cork Festival of Darts at the Commons Inn Hotel and the winner was Paul Donovan from Cloyne in County Cork who defeated Darren O’Hea from Bantry in the final.

The beaten semi-finalists were Ian O’Connor and Damian O’Hea and the prize fund was € 200.

Results:

Winner - Paul Donovan (Cork) Runner-up - Darren O’Hea (Cork)

S/finalists - Ian O’Connor (Cork) and Damian O’Hea (Cork)

Q/finalists - Ryan Courtney (Cork), Gerald Murphy (Cork), Gary Condron (Cork) and Thomas Moylan (Cork)

 

Sean McArdle Wins Kilkenny Event

Shirley’s Bar in Kells hosted one of the biggest Youths’ Singles competitions to be held in the country on Saturday, April 8^th., with thirty six players competing.

The players were divided into eight groups and they played off on a round robin basis with some great darts being thrown by the players of the future.

Sean McArdle from Dublin emerged victorious with a win over Michael Meaney (Kilkenny) in an exciting final.

The beaten semi-finalists were Ryan Courtney (Cork) and Patrick Meaney (Kilkenny) while Eugene McArdle (Dublin), David Coyne (Kilkenny), Michael Devereux (Clare) and Jamie Grant (Waterford) reached the quarter-finals].

The ‘Gunner’ Shoots Them Down

Mark Delaney and John McKenna

John ‘The Gunner’ McKenna won the Under-18 Open Singles Championship at the 2006 Tramore Spring Festival when he defeated his fellow Kildare team-mate, Mark Delaney, in the final at O’Shea’s Hotel.

The beaten semi-finalists were Gerry O’Neill (Tipperary) and Kevin Collins (Wicklow).

O’Neill also played in the Men’s Singles on the same day and showed great promise as he eliminated some experienced players to reach the last thirty two.

Great Weekend for Youths in Clare and Limerick

The 2006 Irish Inter-Counties Youths’ Championships were held at the West County Hotel in Ennis on Saturday, March 11^th. with eleven counties participating (three counties had two teams each).

The twelve teams were divided into two groups which were played on a Round Robin basis with the top two teams in each group going through to the semi-finals.

The final Points Tables in the groups were as follows:

 Clare were crowned Champions for the first time when they defeated Roscommon (A) by three games to one in the final.

Results:

Semi-finals

Mayo 1 - 3 Roscommon (A)

Clare 3 - 1 Kilkenny (A)

Final

Roscommon (A) 1 - 3 Clare

 

Limerick Youths’ Open Singles

Last 8 players

 On the day after the Inter-Counties the organisers of the Ireland Players’ Championship staged an Under-18 Youths’ Open Singles at the Two Mile Inn Hotel, Limerick, in conjunction with Round Three of the Championship and twenty eight youths competed on the day.

The winner of the event was Darren Daly (Clare) who defeated John McKenna Jn (Kildare)by three games to two in the final.

Results:

Quarter-finals

Darren Daly (Clare) defeated Michael Devereux (Clare)

Shane Nolan (Kerry) defeated Declan Harrington (Cork)

John McKenna (Kildare) defeated Philip Considine (Cork)

Damien O’Hea (Cork) defeated Sean McArdle (Dublin)

Semi-finals

Darren Daly defeated Shane Nolan

John McKenna Jn defeated Damien O’Hea

Final

Darren Daly defeated John McKenna Jn

 

Big Weekend for Youths

March 11/12th is a big weekend for the Under-18 darts players in the Republic of Ireland with two big events taking place in the Clare area.

On Saturday, March 11th the INDO will be staging the Irish Youths Inter-Counties Championships at the West County Hotel in Ennis while on the following day an Under-18 Open Singles competition will be held in the Two Mile Inn Hotel on the Ennis Road just north of Limerick City.

For the first time the Youths’ Inter-Counties are being staged on the separate weekend from the men’s and ladies’ championships and matches have been shortened to 5-a-side with counties having the option of entering two teams.

The competition on Sunday is being organised in conjunction with Round Three of the Ireland Players’ Championship which is being held at the Two Mile Inn Hotel at 12 noon.
 

 

Youth Darts Alive and Well - - - in Tramore !

The organisers of Tramore Festival Darts continued their policy of promoting youths’ darts with two great competitions at the 2006 Winter Darts Gala at O’Shea’s Hotel on January 14/15th.

 

On the Saturday there was a prize fund of € 400 for the Under-21 Singles and Shane O’Connor took the first prize of € 200 when he defeated Jason Cullen (Wexford) for the second year in succession. The beaten semi-finalists were Mark Power (Waterford) and Andrew McCormack (Wexford).

 

 

Thirty players competed in the Tramore Cup (under-18) Singles on the Sunday and young Niall Donovan won the title with a 3-2 win against Gerald Murphy in an all-Cork final. The beaten semi-finalists were Sean Vernall (Kilkenny) and Paul Donovan (Cork)

The next competition in Tramore for the youngsters will be an Under-18 Singles on Sunday, April 2nd., at the Tramore Spring Festival

Youths’ Inter-Counties Championship

The INDO has announced that this year’s Youths’ Inter-Counties Championship will be staged on a different weekend than the Men’s and Ladies’ events.

The format is being changed to 5-a-side and counties may enter two teams in the event which will be held at the West County Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare, on Saturday, March 11th.

 

 

Gary Coyne Hits 9-darter

 

:
17-year old Gary Coyne from Kilkenny hit a 9-dart 501 game while practising to take on Ronnie Baxter at an exhibition in Shirley’s Bar recently. He hit two consecutives 180’s before checking out on double twelve.

Noel Touhy - Best of the Irish at World Youths’ Masters

Noel Touhy from Roscommon reached the last sixteen of the Boys’ event at the 2005 World Masters Championship in Bridlington. He lost to Jeffrey Vanbergen from Belgium.
 

Wexford’s Jason Cullen was unlucky to draw the hot favourite, Jonny Nijs (Netherlands) in the first round. Jason put on a great show before losing 2-4 and Nijs went on to win the event.

World Cup in Australia:

Nine countries will be competing in the WDF Youth World Cup in Perth, Western Australia, from September 29th. to October 1st., and the Republic of Ireland will be represented by Jason Cullen  (Wexford ) and Sharon O’Neill  (Cavan ).

In the Youths’ Mixed Pairs the Irish team has been drawn in the same section as Australia, England, Germany and India and this will be played on a Round Robin basis with the top two pairings to qualify for the semi-finals.

The Singles’ competitions will also be played on the same basis and Jason has been drawn in a very tough group with Jonny Nijs  (Netherlands ) and Jamie Lewis  (Wales ). Hopefully, Jason’s great performances in the Europe Youth Cup will be repeated and that he will bring back at least a Silver Medal.

Sharon is also in a group with Dutch and Welsh opposition and hopefully her inexperience at this level will not hinder her quest for glory.

Follow their progress by clicking on the World Cup logo.

 

 

 July 2005

Republic of Ireland to Compete in Europe Youth Cup

The INDO has decided to send a team for the first time to compete in the Europe Youth Cup which will be held in the Netherlands from July 6^th. to 9^th., 2005.

This decision is long overdue and is a great boost for under-age darts in the Republic of Ireland.

The team will consist of four boys and two girls and they will be competing against twelve other countries in Noordwijkerhout in the Netherlands.

The Republic of Ireland squad is as follows:

Boys: Jason Cullen (Wexford), Mick O’Boyle (Sligo), Noel Touhy and Sean Fleming (Roscommon)

Girls: Gemma and Shelley Keogh (Kilkenny)

The Boys Youth Cup will consist of a 4-a-side Team Event, Pairs and Singles while the Girls will consist of Pairs and Singles competitions.

The Boys have been drawn against Russia and the host nation in the Group stages of the Team Event while Jason Cullen teams up with Noel Touhy and Mick O’Boyle with Sean Fleming in the Pairs competition.

Germany are reigning champions in both codes having won both events on home soil in 2004 when the Europe Youth Cup was held in Bremen.

EUROPE CUP YOUTH 2005  -   RESULTS

 

The Battle of Roscrea  

 

The stage was set and the battle lines were drawn as the Under-21 teams from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland stepped up to the oche in the final match of the Youth Friendship Trophy 2005 in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary.

Both sides had accepted that the Northern England team would complete a hat-trick of wins in this tournament as they had defeated both of the Irish teams comfortably on Day One of the competition and the prize at stake in this ‘Mother of all Battles’ was to take second place and the Silver Medal.

The Racket Hall Country House Hotel on the Dublin Road out of Roscrea was the scene for this epic clash and while England were trouncing the ‘Auld Enemy’, Scotland, on Board (1) all eyes were on Board (2) in anticipation of a great match.

And the opposing sets of fans were not disappointed as the players gave their all in a classic encounter.

First blood went to the Republic as Gemma Keogh won the opener against Janice Wright but the North hit back with wins from Brian Nelson and Michael Rice to go 2-1 up.

The Republic won four of the next five games and were looking very comfortable with a 5-3 lead but then Ryan Balmer led a Northern charge and they won the next five games without reply to go 8-5 up.

Shane O’Connor and Shane Mullins won the last two games for the Republic to leave the score at 8-7 in favour of Northern Ireland.

However, though Northern Ireland won the match they could not overtake the Republic who had accumulated one point more over the course of the tournament and they slipped into second place and the Silver Medal.