Ranking Event 7 Sponsored by Darts Raffles Éire.

46 players on the night (great numbers on E.P Weekend). Ten boards in play and round robin the format....

5 boards of five and 5 boards of four we seen some great games and a few very close ones, top two of each board and a few came down to leg difference to decide our last 20.

top 10 and 2 best 2nd automatically qualified for the last 16 and we had four pre lims to make our final 4 for last 16.

four cracking games but one leg in particular was leg f the night, ray haydan vs Dave Doyle both matched each other score for score and with ray sitting on 106 after 12 Dave swept in to take to 62 for a 12 darts leg and a leg avg of 125.25. ray having lost the leg on 98.25 avg. Awesome darts from both players (I had to add the picture of the leg).

the last 16 and quarters served up some great games and some close ones at that.

our final four consisted of mark turner vs Niall Orr and Daithi Whelan vs Matthew Clifford.

Double in/Double out came into play and after two good games we had our final.....

Daithi whelan vs Mark Turner who finally overcame his quarter final hoodoo.

a good final where both players played well but it was Daithi who hit the winning double to take his 2nd ranking title.

thanks to all who marked games and kept the boards running smoothly.

Ranking Table will be updated over the weekend...

we are back 5th September with ranking event 8 sponsored by Quattra Civils

Well where to start, another cracking night of darts at Kildare ranking Event 6 sponsored by Roche Recoverys...

65 players, 14 boards and we set off....

No easy boards and some quality darts, no less than 11 ton plus finishes and 10 180's across the group stages.

Top 2 off each board and top 4 highest 3 places on averages into the knockouts stage.

32 players in the knockouts and some close games I. Both the last 32 and 16 we came down to eight and each of our quarter finals games going 2-1, with game of the quarters been Sean Bern's Vs Oran Devine both players AVG 70 plus it took a 17 darts leg and AVG of 88 for Sean to beat Oran.

Our last 4 set where we seen Paul irving Vs Anthony Donohue and Sean Bern's Vs Matthew Clifford

Double in double now on play and we were treated to two cracking games where Sean and Anthony dug deep to book their places in the finals.

Sean Bern's Vs Anthony Donohue in the final was set.

Anthony looking for his 3rd event win where Sean was looking for his 2nd. Both got off the mark and hit some big scores but missed doubles by Anthony allowed Sean to clean up in 19 darts, the second leg seen Sean fail to get off the board but a big 180 and 1 dart at double 16 seen him win his second ranking event.

Tanks to Dylan and Craig Roche from Roche Recoverys for the sponsorship.

Thanks to all who marked games.

We are back next Friday 29th August with Ranking Event 7 sponsored by Darts Raffles Éire.

Same darts place...Same darts time

See you all there......

Friday nights means one thing....Kildare Darts Rankings...

Ranking Event 5 was up against Oasis, the return of the premier league and the scorching weather ...we still got a cracking turnout of 54 players.

10 boards in play and round robin the format the games came thick and fast, no easy boards and some very tasty matches. 3 hours of play and some top notch darts Inc no less than 12 ton plus check outs and high averages of 70+ we had our final 24.

Top 2 off each board and some surprising fallers in the group stages we set out for our knockouts phase...

The last 16 seen some exceptionally good games as did the last 8 and boom we had our final 4...

The dreaded double in/double out came into play and we had another two good games where we saw....

Anthony Donohue beat Dave Doyle and Fran Leavy beat Kieran Keogh...

Our final two and what a game it was Fran stormed into a one nil lead with a fantastic 16 darter and after a slow start in leg 2 a missed darts at double 20 left Anthony 42 to clean up and he did.

Game level and both players shot out the traps but the quality of Anthony was on display with a ton followed by 140 and and another ton put him into the driving seat but a missed double made for a nervy end but again Anthony's experience showed and took out double four to claim his 2nd event win...

Thanks again to everyone who showed up, thanks to the committee for help in running the event.

Thanks to all who marked games...

Thanks to our sponsors Firestone Pizza....

We're back Friday 22nd August with Ranking Event 6 sponsored by Roches Recovery's

Ranking table will be updated over the weekend and posted in the what's app group and on www.kildarecountydarts.com

See you all there

Another great turnout for Kildare County darts Ranking event 4 kindly sponsored by Briqo Catering.....

65 players on the night, 12 boards and high quality darts was on the menu. with 7 boards of 5 and 5 boards of 6 we set off for an action packed night of darts.

no easy groups and some very tasty matches made the group stages a must watch. game of the group stages had to be Daithi Whelan vs David Doyle after an impressive 11 dart leg featuring two 180's and averaging 136.64 faiths narrowly mssed double 10 for a 14 darter in the 2nd leg. eventually cleaning up on double 2 and a watch average of 96.97. Dave not doing a whole lot wrong just came up against and inspired Daithi.

after almost 3 hours we were down to our final 24 and onto knockouts we went...

after some hard fought games we had our final four Brendan donnelly vs Matthew Clifford and Joe Kirwin vs Oran Devine was the draw and with the added factor of Double in/Double out now in play we were treated to some more top quality darts.

Matthew got the better of Brendan how rued a missed double or two and after a cracking game where Joe and oran traded 14 and fifteen dart legs, Joe prevailed cleaning up on double 8 after previously wiring the bull for 12.

Matthew and Joe played a great final and a few missed darts to get off the board the deciding factor our week 4 ranking vent winner was Matthew Clifford.

4 events and 4 different winners and 4 weeks of top class darts, great turnouts and absolutely super atmospere.

thanks again to our sponsors Briqo Catering.

thanks to all the lads who marked games.

thanks to the townhouse for the great Hospitality as usual.

we are back next Friday the 15th August.. same dart place same dart time...see you all there.

"WOW" "Amazing" "outstanding"

Just some of the words used to describe our Ranking Event 3. Another cracking turnout of 65 players and after a quick shuffle and adding an additional 2 boards we set off......

12 boards in play and round robin the format we set up for a great night of darts, 7 boards of 5 and 5 boards of 6 was the order and no easy boards as the saying goes....

After almost 3 hours of darts and some cracking games we had our 24 for the knockout stages....

With the top 8 group winners with the highest average automatically placed into the last 16, we had some tasty preliminary games to make up the remaining eight..

After some back and forth games we had our last 16 and some more tasty games to look forward to, with the tie of the round being Anthony Donohoe against Daithi whelan, Daithi narrowly missed tops for a 111 checkout to level the tie and Anthony showing his class checks out 150 to win and book his spot in the semi finals.

Joining Anthony in the last 4 was Oràn Devine along with John McKenna Jr and Sean Berns.

Double in double out comes into play from the semi finals.

Two quality semi final matches and we had our final...

Sean Berns vs John McKenna Jr and what a game it was after a slow start by John saw Sean win the first leg but a storming 2nd leg saw John kick off with 157 followed by back to back 140 and wraps the 2nd leg up in 15 darts. Both players produced some quality darts in the last leg and John missed the bull for a 135 which allows Sean the chance at 60 which he takes and earns his first ranking event win.

Thanks to all the players for the great turn out for getting the games moving quickly and marking boards when called upon.

Thanks to Jonny and Janet Meenahan for setting up the venue for us.

Another cracking night of darts at the Kildare county men's ranking event 2.....

We opened up the night with a powerful minute silence for our friend Greener Murphy R.I.P....

With the strong numbers last week we added two new boards to the townhouse setup and we're definitely needed as another strong 53 players turned out on the night. It was great to see some more new faces.

Format was a round robin with 3 boards of 6 and 7 boards of five and some tasty games on each board...

Again the standard of darts was top notch with a total of 15 ton plus finishes across the groups and the highest been from another new kid on the block Matthew Clifford who beat Mark Turner with an awesome 170 C/O.

After some close boards we had our 20 going the knockouts where double in double out came into play and after some great games our semi finals lineup was Sean Berns vs Richie Jacob and Anthony Donohoe vs Matthew Clifford. After Two really good games Richie and Anthony set up our final of event 2.

Richie and Anthony matched each other leg for leg but the experience and class of Anthony prevailed in the end.

Thanks again to everyone for showing up (even in the scorching weather).

Thanks to the lads on the committee for making sure with all rand smoothly, thanks to everyone who marked games.

We have a break next week and we're back then on 25th July for Ranking event 3. Hope to see you all there...