Sir, – Frank McNally referred to "the traditionally nationalist soccer club Cliftonville" (An Irishman's Diary, April 11th). In the Belfast of my boyhood, Cliftonville was an all-amateur, non-sectarian club. We would gather outside the gates on match days asking the adults to "lift us over, mister". Whether the arms which hoisted us over the turnstiles were of the Protestant, Catholic or Dissenter species was of no concern to us. – Yours, etc,
WESLEY BOYD,
Mount Merrion,
Co Dublin.