Dundalk darts stars battle it out in Summer Series showdown

Series Three of the Northend Bar, Dundalk 'Summer Series of Darts' showed no let-up with the quality of darts thrown.

Playing for the Cairnes Brewery Cup, which was first played in 1954, has been a 3-a-side competition for several years, with all funds going to St. Oliver's Old Folks.

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51 players entered the competition on the night, with numbers on the increase each week, that's nearly 60 players competing across three events so far.

To the forefront on the night was Dylan Quinn who hit a number of 180's to help get his team - D.P.D (Dylan, Peter Grennan and Dully) get to the final.

Two coaches from Dundalk Youth Darts (Aidan Thompson and Cara O'Shaughnessy) along with youth player Colin Taaffe (Grumpy Granda and the Kids) secured a narrow 2-1 over Grumpy Old Boys (Kieran Mc Crave, Joe Davidson and David Gonnelly) with Cara hitting tops to secure the win to great celebrations.

The Cavan Men (Michael Gillick, Sean Maguire and Conor Carroll) having progressed after a hard-fought win in the preliminary round would be knocked out in the next round by DPD who would then progress to beat Smashers (Cian Roddy, Hughie Shields and James Callan) in the board final.

Coming under the radar were the Craicheads team of Conor Stephenson, Ryan King and Robbie Murphy who after beating Frankie Agents (Frankie Quigley, Brian Mc Ardle and Stephen B) then caused a bit of an upset by beating Pick One (Daniel Dunn, Ray Harte and Calum Mc Crave) in the board final before being eliminated by D.P.D. in the semi-final.

The Hackers team of Marty Dixon, Conor Dunn and Stephen Shields were also hoping to go well and after seeing off C.A.C. (Johnny Knobloch, Aidan Minto and Jack Riordan), they then beat the Hawks team of Cian and Padraic O'Rourke and Mickey W) in the board final before being beaten 3-1 by the Eagles On A Budget in the semi-final.

Eagles on a Budget (Simon Wykes, Conor Mc Ardle and Martin Carvill) were going well and Conor McArdle was eyeing up a third successive win in the Summer Series.

They beat the Commercial Team (Niall Hinchey, John Rafferty and Ciaran Treanor) before beating Grumpy Granda and the Kids in the Board Final.

Eagles on a Budget would go on to beat D.P.D. 4-1 in the final and help Conor McArdle to some more silverware from the Summer Series.

Big thanks yet again to all our sponsors and not forgetting Cian Roddy from Smashers for supplying the lovely grub last night.