OFFALY darts star Stephen Rosney says he's "over the moon" to have finished off the INDO rankings season as the number one player in Ireland.
The feat means Rosney will now captain the Republic of Ireland teams at this year's Six Nations and WDF World Cup competitions.
Rosney secured his spot on the plane to Korea for the World Cup by winning the INDO Irish Singles in the Shearwater Hotel in Galway on Saturday night, to add to the Irish Masters title he won last year.
He was also a beaten finalist in the INDO Irish Classic on Friday night.
Rosney told Darts In Ireland: "I'm really chuffed, you can have good weekends in darts but this one for me has been particularly brilliant.
"To make two finals in the first two days, I'd have taken that before I came down here.
"At the start of the year my goal was just to make the Ireland team for the World Cup, but as the season was going well for me I knew coming into this weekend I had the chance to be number one and I've done it.
"When I first started playing darts 11 years ago I never would have thought I'd be number one in the country."
Rosney has shown incredible consistency throughout the year, making it to the latter stages of most INDO ranking competitions.
He says he's been particularly pleased at being able to perform under pressure, as he went into the weekend trying to hold on to the number one spot.
He said: "It does play on your mind but it also spurs you on and the good thing for me is that I seem to perform under pressure and that's exactly what I did this weekend."
The Offaly man said he is particularly proud of being Ireland captain.
He added: "I'm really proud of that. Especially when you look back through the years and see all the big names that have been Ireland captain, so to follow in their footsteps in special.
"I learnt a lot off David Concannon when he was captain a couple of years ago and I was on the Ireland team that year.
"So I'm incredibly proud and I've put in a lot of hard work, so to get where I am now, and to be Irish captain, is something nobody can take away from me."
Meanwhile, Rosney said the success for both he and Ronan McDonagh shows that darts is going from strength to strength in Offaly.
The Offaly darts team recently made it as far as the semi-finals of the INDO Inter Counties championships, before bowing out to eventual winners Donegal.
Rosney said: "Darts is very strong in Offaly now and we have a lot of good players.
"It's just unfortunate that in the last two years we've come up against an unbelievable Donegal team, but we are not that far off them."
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