A chara, - I had this dream the other night. A mad dream it was.
A certain hurling team manager was issuing pre-match instructions to his players. "Now lads," he said softly, "get out there and hurl as fairly as ye can. I don't want to see a foul stroke, none of this wild pulling. Sure ye could hurt someone like that, in the name of God. And no bad language mind, or racist taunts or roaring abuse at the other crowd." He shook at the mere thought of such undignified behaviour. "If 'tis a thing I hear any of that oul' stuff I'll personally go out and drag off the culprit, so I will. D'ye hear me now? A good clean game. Just do yer best. Go on now."
Like I said, a mad dream.
In fact, if there's much more of this class of thing I'll be getting worried about it myself. - Yours, etc., Chris O'Keeffe,
Grantstown Village, Waterford.