Madam, - As the Government still sits on the fence about its stadium plan, the IRFU tries to coax it toward accepting its own scheme for Lansdowne Road plan. But neither plan would rectify Ireland's lack of a track and field centre of international standard.
Ireland still lacks an athletics stadium worthy of hosting, say, the European Athletics or World Championships, never mind the Olympics. Ireland's athletics bodies have been curiously reticent about this apparent deficit. - Yours, etc.,
NIALL O'DONOGHUE, Narva, Finland.