Sir, - Having a trace of "Oz" in me, about which I am normally very happy, I am dismayed not to have seen reports of any action by civil authorities taken against the assailant of Irish Lions' out-half Ronan O'Gara on the rugby pitch in New South Wales last weekend.
As Marian Finucane succinctly put it first thing on Monday morning, we might have thought the matter would be of some urgent criminal prosecution and not just left to the rugby authorities to rap knuckles and forget about it. - Yours, etc.,
Daniel D. Lawrence, Sweetmount Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14.
Sir, - Maybe Fianna Fβil should have had Brian O'Driscoll run for them in Tipperary last weekend. His speed and elusiveness getting out of trouble must have been the envy of the entire party. - Yours, etc.,
Jerry Twomey, Woodlawn Court, Santry, Dublin 9.