Sir, – My brother pointed out to me yesterday that our father – whose love of rugby spurred him to help found the Corinthians rugby club – died before he even got to suspect Ireland might beat the All Blacks.
Today he may know he has died and gone to heaven.
I thought too of all the others, millions maybe, who had strode over those railway tracks at Lansdowne Road excited and hopeful and walked back two hours later consoling each other with words well learned.
Surely all of those men – if there is a heaven – must be crammed together today in some amphitheatre up there looking at each other with boyish smiles again, scarcely able to believe what may be about to happen. – Yours, etc,
Ann Ingle: Deliberately going out of my way to move for no particular reason has never appealed to me
Gerry Thornley: How about an alternative look at Ireland’s Six Nations win over England?
Is Ireland anti-Semitic, an outlier of tolerance or in the middle ground?
How risky is it to buy a second-hand EV?
MICHAEL O’CONNELL,
Cabinteely,
Dublin 18.
Sir, – I have been trying to understand why everyone is loving the Rugby World Cup so much and why young and old alike are totally committed to this Irish team.
The difference is people are able to watch it on terrestrial television. The older generation who don’t like or cannot afford pay to view sport and don’t want to go to the pub are loving going into their sitting rooms and watching the game live.
Children whose parents have gone out to watch the game can watch it live too.
In a sports-mad country, the move of so many sports to pay-to-view has had a price to pay.
Showing sport live on terrestrial television is ensuring the whole country is behind us.
Come on, Ireland! – Yours, etc,
AILEEN O’CALLAGHAN,
Booterstown,
Co Dublin.
