Madam, - The furore over Steve Staunton's stewardship of the Ireland soccer team has confirmed one ugly and disturbing fact about modern-day Irish society. The intrusive and at times sickening British tabloid culture that, for years, we looked down on from our moral high horses has now well and truly arrived in this country. - Yours, etc,
DARRAGH HALPIN, Enniskerry Road, Stepaside, Co Dublin.