434 Deputy Frank Feighan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that darts cannot be considered a sport under the ISC Act 1999 which defines sport as all forms of physical activity through casual or organised participation with the aim of expressing physical fitness and mental well being and in forming social relationships or obtaining results in competitions when this is historically recognised in the UK and Europe as a sport for up to a century and which in the current year 2011 is attracting 40 countries to participate in the World Cup Tournament in Castlebar, County Mayo; and if he will investigate the way this sport of darts cannot be fully considered a sport in any terms of the word. [12479/11]

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434 Deputy Frank Feighan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that darts cannot be considered a sport under the ISC Act 1999 which defines sport as all forms of physical activity through casual or organised participation with the aim of expressing physical fitness and mental well being and in forming social relationships or obtaining results in competitions when this is historically recognised in the UK and Europe as a sport for up to a century and which in the current year 2011 is attracting 40 countries to participate in the World Cup Tournament in Castlebar, County Mayo; and if he will investigate the way this sport of darts cannot be fully considered a sport in any terms of the word. [12479/11]

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