Sir, - I have followed the Irish soccer team home and away for the past 25 years and I am angry and disgusted at the pro-NATO stand taken by the Government and the FAI. Public opinion has been whipped up by tabloid-style treatment of the crisis in Yugoslavia by most of the media. Our simplistic acceptance of the NATO line, in contrast to our European counterparts, brings little credit to the Irish people, and our eagerness to use sport to make that political point, even less. - Yours, etc.,
Michael Wallace, Wellingtonbridge, Co Wexford.