Letters

Great sporting moments

Where were you?

Thu Sept 28 2023 - 00:03

Sir, – Noting your letter writer’s suggestion (September 27th) that over 100,000 people will claim to have been at that epic performance on Saturday, one is naturally inclined to wonder whether any of those 100,000 were also at Thomond Park in ‘78 when Munster beat the All Blacks ?

Or at the final home game for Shamrock Rovers at Milltown? Or indeed behind the goal at the Phibsboro end at Dalymount in ‘57 when John Ayteo scored in injury time to knock us out of the World Cup? When the silence could be heard at the Pillar? – Yours, etc,

IAN HEADON,

Blackrock,

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Co Dublin.