Madam, – Shane Kiernan doesn’t seem to have read the article about Rob Kearney’s visit to Ethiopia correctly. Ian O’Riordan (Sport, June 1st) wrote: No one he met in Ethiopia knew anything about rugby, let alone the exploits of the Irish and Leinster full back. “No, they’d no idea,” Kearney said. “Rugby is a completely foreign sport to them. But then some places we went they’d never seen a watch before. And yet they knew all about Messi and Ronaldo and Rooney, which I thought was fairly extraordinary.”
Perhaps Mr Kiernan has a bit more work to do spreading the word. Fair play to Rob Kearney for his great work with Concern, his time visiting water and food distribution projects is probably better spent than internet searches for rugby clubs in Ethiopia. – Yours, etc,