Sir, – As a subscriber to your newspaper for more than 50 years, I was shocked and disappointed by your publication (Sports Weekend, November 2nd), with expletives undeleted, of the extract from Ronan O’Gara’s book. Much of the language used may be regarded as appropriate to the relative privacy of the changing room, or playing field, but surely not in the pages of a family newspaper?
As a former rugby player, none of the language is new to me, but surely we haven’t lost all discretion – or have the real Barbarians taken over? – Yours, etc,
TOM MEADE,
Bunnavara,
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Glanmire, Cork.