MEATH darts star Charlie O'Connor has vowed there is more glory to come after he was crowned the new INDO Boys Inter Counties champion.
Navan schoolboy Charlie O'Connor beat leading Irish Youths player Jack Courtney in a top class final at the Shearwater Hotel in Galway.
It's the biggest win of the 15-year-old's darts career to date, but he is already eyeing up more national titles.
The teenage darts sensation, a third year student at Beaufort College in Navan, said his phone has been hopping with messages since the big win on Friday night.
"I've been getting texts off people all day, it's been great," Charlie said.
"I won the Irish Boys Masters back in 2023, which was a big one to win too, but to become the All Ireland singles champion is even bigger again.
"There are a couple more big ranked national events coming up and if I play like I did here I could maybe win one of them too.
"However there are so many good young darts players in Ireland now. It's all down to the Luke Littler effect and everyone is taking up the game."
Charlie played exceptional darts right throughout a tournament that had 235 players in it.
He came through the group stages winning three of his four games, before turning on the style in the knockout stages.
Charlie averaged an incredible 95.94 in his win in the last 128 and stormed through to the final winning five more games and only dropping five legs in the process.
That set up a final with Carlow's Jack Courtney, an experienced Youths player and serial winner who is currently ranked number three in Ireland.
Charlie said: "I know how good Jack is so I knew I needed to get off to a good start and I did that by winning the first three legs.
"However I also knew that no matter what the score was a player as good as Jack is never beaten and he came back at me and won two of the next three legs himself.
"There were some amazing legs with big scores in them and thankfully I just managed to get to five legs to win, it was an amazing feeling."
Charlie's attentions have now turned to trying to win the team event on Sunday with Meath.
But he said the Carlow team that Jack is a part of, and have won the last two Youth Inter Counties championships, will pose the biggest difficulty.
He said: "We have a good team with Meath but that Carlow team are very strong.
"We had a chance to beat them in the Leinster finals when we built up an early but they have such a strong team that all their best players came in later and they came back to beat us in that."
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