IT’S a pity so much emphasis has been concentrated traditionally on the performance of elite sportsmen and women and so little on ‘sport for all’.

THE verdict in the Pádraig Nally case increases well-founded fears among walkers about venturing onto the mountains and hills of Ireland.

WE are not over impressed by recent IFA claims of a breakthrough in negotiations with Rural Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív about access to the countryside.