Tag: Ally Pally
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Flowers of Scotland steal the show as Barry flies Royal flag
Willie Borland – remember the name. You’re not likely to forget it. On the night 67-year-old Paul Lim – the first man to ever hit a nine dart finish at the World Championships – bowed out of this year’s version, 32 years after that historic occasion, after a typically brave effort, the young Scot joined…
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The Magpie takes tough battle on the Chin on a good day for the Irish
First things first – God bless Sky+ and Series Link. It wasn’t realised the afternoon sessions at the PDC World Darts Championship were starting straight away. So it was a nice surprise to be able catch up on the early action at the Alexandrs Palace. Even more so what it was noticed Ireland’s Steve Lennon…
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Iceman keeps his cool as Jackpot makes his point
Thank Christ it’s Dartsmas! Yours truly would never be a massive fan of this time of year at the best of times, but that upset is magnified tenfold this year. Now read on… There are good points to it, obviously. The grub – and hopefully a drop or three of porter – and the abundance…
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PDC World Championship 2022 Draw
Fallon Sherrock wlll have the honour of leading off this year’s World Darts Championship when taking on The Bronze Adonis, Steve Beaton on opening night, Should ‘The Queen Of The Palace’ manage to negotiate her way past Beaton – making a record breaking 31st appearance in the sport’s showpiece – she would be on a…
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Being a Champion is harder than becoming one
On the three occasions St Peter’s, Dunboyne won Meath Senior Football Champions, in 1998, 2005 and 2018, the greatest regret thereafter was the sense that, on all three occasions, the groups failed to achieve what they might have done given the quality of players on the panels. Why exactly that is has been the subject…
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Rockstar drowned out in Machine-driven crescendo
When one’s life has revolved around sport as much as it has in this seat, tying down a single favourite sporting moment – or indeed a compilation thereof – would be akin to asking Elvis Presley which one of his Number One records were his favourite. Were pressure put on the occupant of this seat…
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Danny bags the Jackpot as Lewis’s struggles continue
Stop the presses. The Americans are good to go. Nobody does ‘Big’ like the US. They’re annoyingly obsessed with big. Whoever wins the NBA are World Champions in basketball, even though the 30-team league comprises only teams from the stars and stripes and one from their neighbouring clover leaf. It has been admitted here umpteen…
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Feisty Huybrechts returns to form
There has been so much sporting activity ongoing across various codes in the last few days that there are a few days worth of action at the World Darts Championship to be caught up with. Now read on… First out of the traps on Saturday was Carlow’s Steve Lennon. The man from Barrowside recorded a…
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Timing is everything as Gurney wins Irish derby
At this time every year, those of us who succumbed to the lure of the darts a long time ago face the usual barrage of scepticism from the unconverted that affairs of the arrows aren’t actually sporting matters. Aside from pointing out the intricacies of the skill set required to prosper on the oche, the…