It was a big weekend at the Gleneagle Hotel for four days of action at the Killarney Darts Festival on November 7-10, which included two WDF ranked events.
Ireland's top darts players were very much amongst the winners as leading ladies player Robyn Byrne won no less than four titles, including her first ever WDF ranking event when she won the Irish Classic.
Youth player Sean McKeon also won the Boys Classic, while fellow Irish youngster James Morris made it to the final of the Irish Open.
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.
Speaking to Darts In Ireland, Byrne said: "It was a great weekend for me personally. Winning four tournaments out of five isn't too bad.
"I played some good darts at times. Killarney is one of favourite weekends of the year, every year I look forward to it.
"To go on and win two of the singles tournaments, and to win my first ever WDF ranked event, it's been a great weekend altogether for myself."
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, while Offaly's Stephen Rosney made it to the final of the Killarney Open.
Meanwhile, 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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