It may have escaped your attention, but beyond all the din and distractions, a pretty enjoyable football championship is happening out there with the prospect of a lot more fun to come.

When you referee a provincial final it puts you in a good position for later on in the year and both Paud O’Dwyer and John Keenan will feel they didn’t lose any ground after their performances yesterday.

Paddy Burns’s letter (Irish Examiner, February 13), ‘Bishops should open churches to homeless’, suggests that homelessness would be solved if people bedded-down on church floors, gawking up at rich frescoes of St Raphael, marble columns, and ornate ceilings, amid the gold leaf and marble of the country’s stunning and sacred churches, while leaving behind empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia.

Glad to see the Vatican is doing something about the homeless. Here in Canada, six homeless people have frozen to death so far this year, while churches are locked up and kept toasty warm.

Regarding the proposed comedy on the Famine (‘Can the famine ever be funny?’, Irish Examiner letters, January 13), I say let them produce it and watch them make fools of themselves.