County Darts News
Best of luck to McDermott's Mark Finneran who is off to Yorkshire, England for next weekends Winmau World Masters where he will represent Roscommon and Ireland in the world famous darting fest. Mark has been an outstanding Roscommon Youths darts player for the past four years and will become the fourth Roscommon player to feature in this tournament in the past five years, after Gavin Conway, Noel Tuohy, and Sean Fleming.
Coverage of the Finals of The Winmau World Masters will be on aired live on BBC TV next Saturday and Sunday. Check TV guides for times.

INDO Winter Festival, Mohill.
There was further good news for Roscommon Darts last weekend as the afore mentioned Mark Finneran and Thomas Concannon both finished in the Top 4 of the Irish National Darts Organisation's Youths Rankings after the final round of the year at Mohill, Co Leitrim at the weekend. They now qualify for the 4-a-side Irish Youths Darts team which will participate in the Europe Cup in Amsterdam next July. Thomas beat Mark 3-0 in Sunday's final with a 118 checkout in the first leg. Two 17-darters in the next two legs capped a perfect day. Mark's position prior to Mohill looked very good but Thomas needed results to go his way and to progress as far as he could-both of which happened. After a nervy game against David Coyne, Concannon beat Paddy Meaney 3-0 with a dominant display, restricting Meaney to just one shot a double in the 3 legs, before going on to beat Mark in the final. Gary Concannon's participation ended before the final stages. While Roscommon players dominated in the youths, Roscommon's mens representatives also done very well with Ballaghaderreen's Sean Fleming losing at the semi final stage. He is the first Roscommon player since Padraig Kearney in 2002 to achieve such a run in an I.N.D.O tournament. Wins over three Irish Internationals Eugene McArdle (4-3), Eddie Cull (4-0) and Steve McDonnell (4-2) earned a semi-spot where he was beaten 5-1 by eventual winner Connie Finnan. Having been 2-0 down in his quarter final to McDonnell his comeback included legs of 18,12 and 14 darts. Mick Egan could have progressed a lot further had Martin McCloskey not been the early opposition. Egan was 3-2 up but lost 4-3 having played very well and included two 180's in the first three legs. McCloskey made it to the semi-finals on the day, to top the I.N.D.O rankings for 2008. Martin Fleming had a 4-3 win over James Quigley, but was beaten 4-2 by Anto McCracken in the last 16.

Tommy Kenny Cup.
The 6th annual Tommy Kenny Cup will be held in Creaton's Bar Loughlynn on Sunday 14th of December. Full details later.

Hannon's Hotel Christmas Singles.
Sunday 21st of December at Hannon's Hotel Roscommon Town. Full details later.