Madam, - Please tell your sports writer Tom Humphries that there are thousands of English people living in Ireland and some of us are even quite sensitive. He says England are "pleased with themselves and busy inflating a new superstar [Wayne Rooney\] of which dangerously much has already been made". On the contrary, the team are just trying to do their best and Rooney is being celebrated throughout Europe - not just by the chauvinistic English.
I don't recognise the "spirit of self-congratulation" he talks about. We're just enjoying the football and hoping our country does well. - Yours, etc.,
IAN MUSGRAVE, Newbridge, Co Kildare.