Sir, – The Irish Times (November 14th) runs eight articles over three full pages (3, 18, 19) on the Roy Keane press conference the day before. Your coverage of this event (a media briefing by an assistant manager before a friendly soccer international) is excessive. Disappointingly, it is indicative of a dumbing down of standards in print media in general recently.
Meanwhile, the world championship chess match between the defending champion Viswanathan Anand (India) and the highest rated player of all time, Magnus Carlsen (Norway) continues in Chennai, India without mention by the “paper of record”.
Chess may not be as sexy as football and undoubtedly, Grandmaster Roy Keane is box-office gold, but please keep things in proportion. – Yours, etc,
DENIS O’CONNELL,
Cois Caol,
Skibbereen, Co Cork.