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He’s not unbeatable but it will take something extraordinary
How the world rankings in darts are arrived at and collated is indeed a curious system. The best guess yours truly can hazard at an explanation is to reckon that rankings are determined via a players’ total prize money accumulated over a two year cycle. That is the only plausible conclusion as to why Luke…
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Selections for Dundalk – Oct. 29th 2025
2.00: FLEETFOOTSOLDIER – EW – (BEN COEN/NATALIA LUPINI) 2.32: COMFORT LINE – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/ADO MCGUINNESS) 3.01: SIERRA DE GREDOS (GARY CARROLL/ANDY OLIVER) 3.31: ANUSHKA – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.01: IRON LILY – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.35: NIKKI SWANGO (ADAM CAFFREY/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.05: WHATCHADOIN (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/JOSH HALLEY) 5.40: LADY…
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Selections for Thurles – Oct. 9th 2025
1.45: CAPE PROMISE (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.20: DUKE OF CUMBERLAND (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.55: SLANEY SWAGGER (PADDY HARNETT (5)/PHILIP BYRNE) 3.30: SPY (SEAN DAVIS/CHARLES BYRNES) 4.05: JUSTENZIA (KEITHEN KENNEDY (5)/DENIS HOGAN) 4.40: DREAM ON BABY (BEN COEN/EMMET MULLINS) 5.15: TRUBSHAW – EW – (GABRIELLA HILL (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD)
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Selections for Galway – Oct. 7th 2025
2.20: WE’LLONLYHAVEDONE (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.50: MOULANE WEST – EW – (MICHAEL KENNEALLY (7)/MARK MCNIFF) 3.20: SPORTING GLANCE (EOIN STAPLES (7)/CIAN COLLINS) 3.50: LADIAM (GARY NOONAN (3)/NORMAN LEE) 4.20: WILL THE WISE (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.50: FINNIANS ROW – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (5)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 5.20: MULLAGHGLOSS (ADAM RYAN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY)
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World Darts Grand Prix Draw
You know the seasons are changing and the long wintry nights are afoot when the wheel of the sporting year rotates to such a point that the World Grand Prix in Darts is upon us. Once staged at the City West Hotel before it was shamefully let go as a working concern and instead put…
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Hate to say we told you so!
“We asked you not to hold onto the hand rail; We told you not to spit over the side”. Just then, the stairway to Heaven was retracted and Bart Simpson slips down the greasy pole to the warm place. Hardly surprising. Now read on… After the first day’s action at the most recent incarnation of…
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 26th 2025
1.23: NADIA’S BOY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.58: OLLIE LE BA BA – EW – (JODY TOWNEND/EOIN MCCARTHY) 2.33: KINGDOM CALLING – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.08: SERRIENMOND – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.43: TROPICAL IMAGE – EW – (TOMMY O’CONNOR (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.18: CEROC – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/ANDY SLATTERY) 4.52: CELESTIAL TUNE…
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Being a gentleman doesn’t always pay off
On numerous occasions over the years in this space, mention has been made of the fact that honesty and perfection doesn’t always work out for those who display it. Think of the dart player who slots a nine dart finish but still ends up losing their match. The team player who ends up on the…
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Donal’s dozen takes Dunboyne to a 10th Final
St Peter’s, Dunboyne… 1-18 Donaghmore/Ashbourne… 3-10 Donal Lenihan scored 12 points – including five two-pointers – as Dunboyne qualified for the Div. 1 FL Final for a tenth time. Though therein they will be attempting to claim the Mooney Cup for only a second time. When the home side’s Evan Kelly and former Waterford forward…
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Dessie Farrell steps down
It won’t have come as a huge shock, but it’s still always sad when the curtain comes down for one of the true greats. And, for as long as the story of Dublin GAA is told, the name of Desmond Farrell shall command such accreditation. Especially now that his six year tenure as Dublin senior…