Success for Ireland's darts stars at Irish Open weekend
Robyn Byrne won four events, while youth star Sean McKeon also tasted victory
IRELAND'S top darts stars enjoyed major success on the biggest weekend on the Irish darting calendar in Killarney.
Leading ladies player Robyn Byrne won no less than four events, including the WDF ranked Irish Classic, while youth player Sean McKeon also won the Boys Classic during four days of oche action at the Killarney Darts Festival in the Gleneagle Hotel.
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Dubliner McKeon's fellow youth player, James Morris, also made it to the final of the Irish Open Boys event on Sunday night, just losing out to Scottish whizzkid Mitchell Lawrie despite playing some stunning darts.
It was no surprise that Robyn Byrne, who has been having an incredible season of success, lead the way again by scooping four more titles to add to the PDC Women's Series and Europe Cup wins from earlier in the year.
The 27-year-old got her weekend off to a brilliant start by winning the All Ireland team event with her fellow Dublin players Katie Sheldon, Regina Boyne, Sandra Smart and Annemarie Flood.
She followed that up on Friday by teaming up with Sheldon to win the Irish Open ladies pairs, before adding the Killarney Open singles event later that night.
Byrne kept her incredible run up on Saturday by winning the WDF ranked Irish classic, before eventually tasting defeat in the last 16 of the WDF Irish Open singles to England's Kirsty Hutchinson on Sunday.
It was a big weekend for PDC Development Tour player, Sean McKeon, too, as he won the WDF Irish Classic Boys final over Leitrim's Charlie McDermott on Saturday night, before reaching the last four in the Irish Open Boys event on Sunday.
The standout Irish performer in that event was Roscommon youth, James Morris, who showed his class by making it to the final with a last four win over Holland's Milan Brinkman with an impressive 89.28 average.
Ireland's youth girls players, Rebecca Allen and Zoe Burke also made it to finals over the weekend, with Allen losing out to England's Paige Pauling in the Irish Classic decider, with Burke falling to the same opponent in the Irish Open final on Sunday.
In the men's events, Donegal's Derek Gallagher did exceptionally well to make it to the semi-finals of the WDF Irish Classic, where he lost out in a last leg decider to eventual winner Stefan Schroder of Holland.
Veteran ex-Ireland international Sean MacGowan, who only recently hit a nine darter, had a good weekend as he made it to the last 16 of the Irish Open on Sunday and picked up a special pin for taking out an impressive 170 checkout.
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