Madam, - Why were Irish commentators so upset at the punch-up and "handbags" that masqueraded last Friday as a game of football, when they were the very people, along with many GAA sports writers, who seemed to me to spend the preceding weeks commending the hard-man image of the games against Australia? Even the TV advertising concentrated on the "off-the-ball" incidents rather than on any level of skill.
To refer to this unruly hybrid as "International Rules" is plain daft. Rules were conspicuous by their absence.
Both organisations and their promoters would do well to bury this useless experiment before they do further damage to impressionable children. - Yours, etc,
NIALL GINTY, The Demesne, Killester, Dublin 5.