William O'Connor

William O'Connor, known as The Magpie, is an Irish darts player from Cappamore in County Limerick who has been a professional since 2011. Born in Limerick on 15 July 1986, he was 29th on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £294,750 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with one senior title, Players Championship 13 in 2019.

O'Connor first came to prominence at the 2010 UK Open, where he beat Mark Frost and Peter Wright on the way to the fourth round. He has represented Ireland at the World Cup of Darts in every year it has been held, and in 2019 he reached the final with Steve Lennon, where they lost 3-1 to Scotland. Earlier that year he won Players Championship 13, beating Nathan Aspinall 8-4 in the final. He reached his first PDC major semi-final at the 2022 UK Open, beating Peter Wright 10-7 and Sebastian Bialecki 10-9 before losing 11-9 to Danny Noppert. He has lost two European Tour finals, to Michael van Gerwen at the 2018 European Darts Matchplay and to Joe Cullen at the 2022 Hungarian Darts Trophy, and two Players Championship finals since 2025, to Chris Dobey and Ross Smith.

In the autumn of 2026 he lost 2-1 in sets to Ryan Searle in the first round of the World Grand Prix. He beat Jani Haavisto 6-1 at the Swiss Darts Trophy before a 6-4 defeat to Ross Smith, and at the Dutch Darts Championship beat Richard Veenstra 6-2 and Michael van Gerwen 6-5 before losing 6-4 to Luke Woodhouse. Luke Littler beat him 6-3 in the first round of the European Championship. The PDC records three nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events. He throws 23-gram Shot darts and walks on to "Zombie" by The Cranberries.