Straight to the POINT

SO Simple Simon says he’s sorry. Thank God for that, because it looked like he was going to get off scot-free.

PETER McGINNITY, by email.

I DISCOVERED yesterday that Gordon Banks played one match for St Patrick’s Athletic, and kept a clean sheet in a 1-0 win over Shamrock Rovers in 1977. Apparently he made a great save from a shot from the one and only Eamon Dunphy! What a great tale. May Banks rest in peace.

JOHN KEARNEY, Dublin 8.

YOU would have thought at this stage, union leadership would have learned not to be conned into continuing negotiations into the small hours, when the evidence shows that they are far more likely to concede concessions, than win gains.

LIAM POWER, Co. Louth.