The long and the shorts of it

Sir, – Mike Moran bemoans the amount of discarded male underwear left at Dublin swimming spots and wonders if this is evidence of amnesiac bathers (Letters, August 20th).

Could it be barristers who forgot their briefs? – Yours, etc,

CIANA CAMPBELL,

Ennis,

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Co Clare.