A chara, – You report on a re-enactment of a 1904 motorbike race from Belfast to Derry and back, describing it as “early evidence of Northern Ireland’s enduring passion for motorbikes” (“Riders retrace world’s first motorcycle race along Northern Ireland’s roads”, News, July 22nd). It certainly is “early”. Seventeen years early. Ireland was partitioned and the state of “Northern Ireland” created in 1921. – Is mise,
EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC,
Cill Chríost,
Gaillimh.