Cut the bull: Forget rugby, make Ireland darts country

“The Queen sends her best”

— Sid Waddell

Seven feet, 9.25 inches. A little under two-and-a-half metres. Not so great a distance if, say, you were face-to-face with a grizzly bear, but it’s a mighty long way when you are standing, dart in-hand, all alone at the oche.