Sir, – Heartwarming though it was to see a baseball metaphor employed in an Irish Times leader ("That GPO moment", June 10th), it didn't quite work.
America’s national pastime allows for the theft of second base, third base and even home plate, but not first.
To have “stolen first base”, Sinn Féin would have to ignore the rules of the game entirely, and I’m certain that was not your point. – Yours, etc,
CHRIS THORNTON,
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