Too cruel for sport

SIR – You report (July 10) on the Spanish matador recently killed in a bullfight.

I went to a bullfight in Spain the late Eighties, not out of enthusiasm but simply to see what it was about. I left after the second bull was killed. It had suffered a few attempts by the matador to insert his sword in its neck before he was successful in doing so. The animal had rushed into the ring with everything stacked against it.

Is this sport? I do not think so. I know it is a national event in Spain, but it is barbaric and has to stop.

Daniel Baird Ballymoney, Co Antrim