`States Of Fear'

Sir, - Is it appropriate that the Artane Boys Band should still play at GAA matches? Surely it must be a cause of great pain …

Sir, - Is it appropriate that the Artane Boys Band should still play at GAA matches? Surely it must be a cause of great pain for those abused at Artane and other Christian Brother schools.

Is it not time that the GAA faced up to its responsibility in this matter. After all, the GAA and the Christian Brothers shared the closest relationship between a sporting organisation and a religious order in the history of world sport. - Yours, etc., Tom Connolly,

Rathmines, Dublin 6.