In reading and viewing the extensive coverage of the visiting American football university teams to Dublin, it is regrettable no Irish media covered the damage done to higher education and hundreds of thousands of young students — mostly male — across the US because of the emphasis placed on sports in primary and secondary schools there.

REGARDING Fergus Finlay’s article, “Yes we should celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden” (Opinion, May 3), please permit me to make the following observations: