Setanta Sports

Phone call received today from Paul Ryan who is producing a sports program in the coming months in connection with Setanta Sports and for TV3. He was basically looking for info on the Castlebar situation this weekend. First he was asking about the Iceman's exhibition in Ballina but that doesn't suit them as they are only travelling down Saturday. They are going to be recording an on the floor darts event for their program and have chosen the Irish Open. As the tournament is sponsored by Elverys they might get in on the action. He was very keen on asking questions about Taylor though. Phil cannot make The Irish Open this year as he is contracted by Bavaria to stay in Holland for the week and compete in the WDF. Win ,lose or draw he is contracted to stay the duration. Barney will be around however and he was excited by that. He collared me about the possibilty of getting the Iceman to speak on it due to his Manager being Irish/tournament in Ireland/Exhibition in Ireland etc,etc so Ice is all for that and we'll see how it goes with Setanta and the rest from here.

Warriner is still has one of the biggest presence in the game and is one of the most sought after and at a televised tournament for instance autograph hunters will always go straight for the following. Bristowe, Lowe, Taylor, Barneveld, Warriner, Priestley, Part, Mardle and Roddy and on the BDO side of things George, Fordham, Adams and to a lesser extent King. Usually they dont get any off of King though without a grunt. The angle i'm going with this one is Ronnie Boyle who is the tournament director this weekend was on Booking Wozza for an appearance at Elverys on Friday along with Rod and Lloydie providing Lloyd loses to Taylor tomorrow night in Holland and flys over here for the presentation to Elverys and then onto the tournament on Saturday. No such thing as bad publicity and a visit to Elverys and probably the wearing of the Elverys badge for the weekend is good publicity both ways and thats the way it works.

Heard today my two friends from London Julie and Viv will be coming over here next month for the Warriner/Part exhibitions. I'm doing the MC for the one in Edenderry so they probably want to come over and laugh at me. Ladies if you are in early on the Thursday i'll come and get you otherwise you can get lost as we'll have to be leaving early.