Tag: #Christmas25
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Selections for Punchestown – Dec. 31st 2025
12.35: SLADE STEEL (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.05: CASEY WEST – EW – (TIERNAN POWER-ROCHE (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 1.35: SARATOGA – EW – (MARK WALSH/PADRAIG ROCHE) 2.05: SPILLANE’S TOWER – EW – (MARK WALSH/JIMMY MANGAN) 2.35: KLAS LANGY – EW – (HUGH HORGAN (5)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.05: SPACE WARRIOR – EW – (ANNA MCGUINNESS/TOM MULLINS) 3.35: SOUND…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 29th 2025
11.40: KILBARRY LIZZY – EW – (MICHAEL KENNEALLY (7)/CON O’KEEFFE) 12.12: JALON DOUDAIRIES (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.47: SUNNY SOUTH WEST – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (7)/EDDIE POWER) 1.22: WODHOOH (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.57: MYSTICAL GODESS – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (4*) /HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.32: LOSSIEMOUTH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: BLUE MOSQUE – EW –…
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The Eagle hangs out with The Shed as The Ferret burrows through
Whether in sport or any other facet of life, everybody has their own individual way of doing things. Salt and vinegar or not on chips, either reading newspapers in ‘hard copy’ form or on some sort of device. Darts is no different to anything else in life within those parametres. At one end of the…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 28th 2025
12.10: LAZARE DE STAR (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.45: LAMBAY ISLAND – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.20: SHUFFLE THE DECK – EW – (MARK WALSH/TED WALSH) 1.55: BOB OLINGER – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.30: AFFORDALE FURY – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 3.05: JORDANS – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.40:…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 27th 2025
12.05: OLE OLE – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 12.37: LOVELY HURLING – EW – (MARK WALSH/COLM MURPHY) 1.12: MARINE NATIONALE (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 1.47: LOVE ME TENDER (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.22: EN OR – EW – (DAN KING/TONY MARTIN) 3.00: WILL THE WISE – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.30: ARCADIAN EMPORER (PADDY…
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Speed, horsepower and Razzmatazz
After a trying day and a bit on a personal level when everything that possibly could go wrong did so, time for another in the series of articles looking back on what has transpired at the PDC World Championship in the Alexandra Palace, London, since last time the keyboard last took a tapping on the…
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A Lim and a prayer proves there’s always hope!
Is there one sport in the world at which absolutely anybody, able-bodied or otherwise, can have a go? If pressed to nominate an answer, yours truly would probably plump for darts. The cruel irony being that, from a personal perspective, the singed wires in the engine department up top mean that one’s attempts at pegging…
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Smudger has his copybook blotted out as R and V find a way
It’s probably fairly safe to assume that, for players and/or their entourage and next of kin, waiting to ‘tog out’ for your seasonal debut in the World Darts Championship must be the same as what it’s like prior to a club or county championship match. For them, it may be butterflies in the stomach whereas…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 13th 2025
11.30: JACOB’S LADDER (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.02: THE ENABLER (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.32: BEN HUR (DONAGH MEYLER/NOEL MEADE) 1.05: DRIVEONWILL – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 1.40: MELBOURNE SHAMROCK – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 2.15: TED’S CORNER – EW – (DAN KING/TONY MARTIN) 2.50: KOOLIO KATE – EW – (ALEX HARVEY/PAT FOLEY) 3.25: SPRING…
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Selections for Punchestown – Dec. 11th 2025
11.50: PURE STEEL (MARK WALSH/JIMMY MANGAN) 12.20: PORT JOULIAN – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.50: FILLYOUREYE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.20: AMEN KATE – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/TOM COOPER) 1.50: NEWBROOK DIAMOND (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.20: JIGORO (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: TED’S CORNER (DAN KING/TONY MARTIN) 3.23: WARMER DAYS AHEAD – EW – (JAMES DUGGAN…