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Sir, Concerning Michelle Smith's success, I think G. T. Dempsey's letter of July 30th is very commendable and timely.

Sir, Concerning Michelle Smith's success, I think G. T. Dempsey's letter of July 30th is very commendable and timely.

The whole business has given rise to such ugliness in the media, supplemented by a series of potato faced bigots getting their tuppence worth across via the street soundbite, that I am more than convinced that, contrary to Americans being bad losers, it is we Irish who have so far distinguished ourselves as the world's worst and most unpleasant winners. - Yours, etc.,

Ardenza Terrace,

Monkstown,

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Co. Dublin