A chara, – The chances of a united Ireland have surely been diminished by the display of ultra-defensive puke football in Croke Park by the southern aristocrats of Dublin and Mayo. The genteel GAA folk from Ulster must surely have been aghast at the litany of fouling, diving, head-butting, complaining and feigning of injury portrayed at the weekend, in stark contrast to the free-flowing football for which they are well known. The applications to join mixed martial arts clubs must be at a record high this week as Irish mothers attempt to steer their beloved offspring towards safer sports. – Is mise,
LOMAN Ó LOINGSIGH,
Dublin 24.
Sir, – As one of the 82,000 spectators in Croke Park last Sunday, allow me to say that the GAA does not enforce its own rules. – Yours, etc,
JOHN JOHNSTON,
Waterford.