Madam, - A northside-southside bias seems to have coloured The Irish Times's view of distances. Your report of September 14th on Junior Cert students celebrating their results says that events were from locations such as "Bondi Beach in Stillorgan to the Ambassador on O'Connell Street and afar to Barcode in Fairview".
Fairview is 3 kilometres from O'Connell Street and 4 kilometres from Merrion Row.
Stillorgan is 8 kilometres from O'Connell Street and 6 kilometres from Merrion Row.
Which is "afar" exactly? - Yours, etc,
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SHEILA O'FLANAGAN,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3.