{"id":8552,"date":"2013-04-23T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T10:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8552"},"modified":"2013-04-23T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T10:52:14","slug":"this-sporting-life-ep16-darts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8552","title":{"rendered":"This Sporting Life Ep16 \u2013 Darts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pjawo8g0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8366\" alt=\"This Sporting Life\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pjawo8g0-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><strong>This Sporting Life: The Story of Minority Sport in North Dublin<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><strong><\/strong><\/i><i>This Sporting Life<\/i>\u00a0is an upbeat and lively series of short documentaries which capture the excitement and dedication of minority sports people and encourages others to join in. Each programme serves as an introduction to a different minority sport\u00a0practiced\u00a0in\u00a0Northside\u00a0Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><b>16. Darts<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Darts is a sport that&#8217;s making a dramatic comeback. The heyday of the sport was definitely in the 70&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s players like Jockey Wilson and Eric Bristow were household names. But dart boards are starting to re-appear in pubs all over Dublin and tickets to the Premier League Darts at the 02 and the Irish Open at Citywest are like gold dust.<\/p>\n<p>Our reporter Edd Kealy went along to the his local the Baldoyle House to meet some the lads who play for the team and to try and find out why darts is on the up. Edd talked to club captain Mick Ennis as well as some of the experienced and not so experienced darts players including Fred and Ray Corr and Frank Bennett.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BAI-logo-mark-colour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8367\" alt=\"BAI logo mark colour\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BAI-logo-mark-colour-215x300.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This series is made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of\u00a0Ireland\u2019s\u00a0Sound and Vision scheme.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2168\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/16Darts.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2168','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/16Darts.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/16Darts.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8552-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/16Darts.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"16Darts.mp3\">Download<\/a> (0.0KB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sporting Life: The Story of Minority Sport in North Dublin This Sporting Life\u00a0is an upbeat and lively series of short documentaries which capture the excitement and dedication of minority sports people and encourages others to join in. Each programme serves as an introduction to a different minority sport\u00a0practiced\u00a0in\u00a0Northside\u00a0Dublin. 16. Darts Darts is a sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2169\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/16Darts.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2169','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/16Darts.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/16Darts.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8552-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/16Darts.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"16Darts.mp3\">Download<\/a> (0.0KB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,80],"tags":[637,827,1065,2071,2471,3058],"class_list":["post-8552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-this-sporting-life","tag-citywest","tag-darts","tag-edd-kealy","tag-minority-sports","tag-premier-league-darts-dublin","tag-this-sporting-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}