Madam, - Here we go again! For the 11th year in succession under a sports-enthusiastic northside Taoiseach, Dublin has again failed to win the Sam Maguire Cup.
Clearly, in recent times, Fianna Fáil in government has been bad news for Dublin GAA. After all, when Sam was last won in 1995, John Bruton was taoiseach. Before that, in 1983, Garret FitzGerald was taoiseach and when the Kevin Heffernan-inspired run began in the mid-1970s, Liam Cosgrave was taoiseach. - Yours, etc,
DERMOT C. MELIA, Foxfield Road, Raheny, Dublin 5.