Maritime Darts Festival in Bantry

Dartgod

The Maritime Hotel in Bantry, West Cork, is hosting the 2009 Maritime Darts Festival on the weekend of June 27th./ 28th., with a prize fund of €4,000 on offer.
The Festival will commence on Saturday with an "Open Draw" Doubles competition at 8.00pm and will continue on Sunday with separate Singles competitions for Men, Ladies and Youths.
The winner of the Men's Singles will pocket €1,000.

Details on www.dartsinireland.com

Dartgod

Entry forms for the Maritime Darts Festival are now available.
They may be downloaded from www.dartsinireland.com.

jamesbere

Im only living half an hour away and cant go cos im goin to acdc on the sunday night:mad:

Dartgod

Sorry about that James - - - somebody else will have to pick up the first prize of € 1,000 !

patrickincork

Gonna try to get a few friends to head down on the Sunday

Dartgod

Should be a great event.
The set-up in the Maritime is top-class and there will be sixteen boards in play on the day.

Dartgod

The Maritime Festival has received a double boost with the announcement that both Unicorn and the Gleneagle Hotel will be backing the Bantry event.
Unicorn are supplying the top of the range Eclipse Pro dartboards for the Festival while the Gleneagle Hotel are inviting the winners of the Men's, Ladies' and Youths' Singles to compete in the John McEvoy Classic events at the 2009 Killarney Darts Festival on Sunday, October 18th.
The winner of the Men's Singles in Bantry will compete against the top PDC players in the John McEvoy Gold Dart Classic while the Ladies' and Youths' winners will be invited to contest the Silver Dart and Bronze Dart events, respectively.

ciarraibhoy

Anyone heading to this?

Dartgod

The legendary John Joe O'Shea is practising hard for this event in his home town.
He made a comeback to Inter-Counties darts in April when he played on one of the Cork teams in the Inter-Counties Challenge in Tramore.

Dartgod

It's looking good for the Maritime Festival in Bantry this coming weekend with 80 players entered at this stage for the Men's Singles on Sunday.

Entries for the Open Draw Doubles on Saturday night and the Ladies' and Youths' Singles on Sunday will be accepted at the venue.

Dartgod

Entries have now hit 100 for Men's Singles on Sunday !

ciarraibhoy

oops, just found my entry form down the side of seat in car. :eek: Oh well looks like I'll be doing something else on Sunday now.

superref

anyone know the results of todays competitions ?

Dartgod

Just back from Bantry - super weekend of darts !

Men's Singles was won by William O'Connor from Limerick - AWESOME ! ! !
He defeated John O'Shea {Cork} 5-0 in the final.
William also won the prize for the Highest Check-out - 160 - and he did it twice throughout the afternoon.

Kay O'Carroll defeated her Cork team-mate Ashling Feiriteur in the Ladies' Final and David Coyne {Kilkenny} defeated Ryan Courtney {Cork} in the Youths' Final.

Dartgod

Men's Singles results - - - - -

Q/finals:

Joe Coyne 3 - 4 Eugene Murnane
Damian O'Driscoll 3 - 4 John O'Shea
Jimmy Murphy 4 - 2 Nigel Connell
William O'Connor 4 - 2 Ian Dobson

S/finals:

Eugene Murnane 3 - 5 John O'Shea
Jimmy Murphy 1 - 5 William O'Connor

Final:

John O'Shea 0 - 5 William O'Connor


Highest Check-out:

160 William O'Connor

Dartgod

More results from Bantry - - - - -

Ladies' Singles:
Q/finals:
Ashling Feiriteur bt Eimear O'Shea
Pearl O'Hara bt Helen O'Neill
Kay O'Carroll bt Liz Byrne
Anne O'Sullivan bt Nora Dobson

S/finals:
Ashling Feiriteur bt Pearl O'Hara
Kay O'Carroll bt Anne O'Sullivan

Final:
Ashling Feiriteur 0 - 3 Kay O'Carroll

Youths' Singles:
Q/finals:
James Gearon bt Jack O'Hea
Ryan Courtney bt Damien Kelly
Dale McCarthy bt Jamie O'Driscoll
David Coyne bt Shauna O'Connell

S/finals:
Ryan Courtney bt James Gearon
David Coyne bt Dale McCarthy

Final:
David Coyne bt Ryan Courtney


Open Draw Doubles:
S/finals:
Nigel Connell/ Darren O'Shea 3 - 0 Brendan Corcoran/ Donal O'Sullivan
Philip Standing/ Kevin McCann 3 - 0 Luke Kelly/ Billy McAuliffe

Final:
Nigel Connell/ Darren O'Shea 4 - 0 Philip Standing/ Kevin McCann