A chara, – Emily O’Callaghan (September 21st) criticises the media for its failure to adequately report the achievements of Katie Taylor. This item of news, like any other, receives the coverage it deserves according to the level of public interest it commands. It is essential that the media does not allow itself to be bullied into devoting unmerited attention to a story solely to avoid accusations of sexism, or any other prejudice. We all have minority interests we would like to see more of in the papers, but nobody has the right to tell the media its business. Playing the equality card is nothing more than a facile and sinister ruse to give such frivolousness an air of legitimacy. – Is mise,
Madam, – Am I alone in finding the public spectacle of two young women endeavouring to punch each other unconscious utterly repellent, a travesty of the idea of sport, and a denigration of womanhood itself? – Yours, etc,