Offaly darts star Ronan McDonagh has added to his growing list of achievements after qualifying for the next Modus Super Series by winning through the highly competitive ADC Ireland regional qualifier last weekend.
The reigning INDO inter-county B singles champion has described his latest success as the best win of his darts career to date.
Ronan had to come through a tough field last weekend, before overcoming rising Dublin star Sean McKeon in the final, averaging an impressive 94 while doing so.
It means that he will now take part in series 9 of the Modus Super Series in the UK.
He will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of other recent Irish qualifiers like Killian McCormack and Dean Finn, who both made finals night at Modus at their first time playing the event.
Speaking to Darts In Ireland, Ronan says the enormity of what he has achieved is still only sinking in.
However he says it is just reward for all the hard work and practice he has been putting into his game.
Ronan said: "I'm practising up to four to six hours a day at home and it's like anything, you'll get out of it what you put into it.
"I'm really happy to qualify for Modus as I have been trying through the ADC vaults for the last three seasons and got to finals night before.
"It has given me a lot of confidence and I'm really looking forward to the experience of playing at such a high level event."
Ronan's latest success caps off a brilliant year for him, in which he also won the INDO inter-county B singles title, while making it to the last four of the recent Killarney Open.
He says his inter-county B singles success was particularly sweet as it came after he had battled a bout of the dreaded dartitis.
He said: "I had actually qualified to play for the Offaly A team at the inter counties but because of the dartitis I didn't feel confident and well enough in myself to play for the team then.
"When the B championships came around the dartitis was thankfully going away and I managed to win the singles which was a big boost."
He says his confidence in himself in growing all the time when he takes to the oche.
"You have to believe in yourself when you get up there to play because if you don't, then how can you expect anyone else to have confidence in you," Ronan says.
"I feel very confident at the moment, I can even see it in practice with the amount of 180s I'm hitting and playing at the Modus Super Series is just going to bring my game on to another level."
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