Losing players to emigration

Madam, – The All Ireland Club SFC Final report (Sports, March 18th) quotes the Kilmurry Ibrickane Captain: “But we’re a small…

Madam, – The All Ireland Club SFC Final report (Sports, March 18th) quotes the Kilmurry Ibrickane Captain: “But we’re a small club in west Clare. There isn’t much work back there, so we could lose a few players after this”.

Now we’re in the same position as the 1960s when the Irish government exported about 50,000 a year of their own people. Can some university graduate calculate how much the Irish government spent educating them and the potential loss – much more than the bank crisis?

Think of O’Connell, Parnell and Dev. Start a new party and get Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael out of power – permanently. – Yours, etc,

SEAN SEXTON,

Author Collector,

(Kilmurry Ibrickane Player,

1962. Exported to London,

1963),

Forest Road,

Walthamstow,

London, England.