Sir, – Reporting on Derry City’s FAI Cup victory, , (“Derry City’s absurd season comes to a giddy end with FAI Cup triumph, November 9th), Gavin Cooney wrote: “It was one of those perfect days on winter’s threshold, where a butter sun hung low in a powder-blue sky with a faint, pervasive chill in the air to stiffen everyone’s nerves.” Raymond Chandler could not have done better.
When I read a line like this, I am reminded why I often enjoy the writing in The Irish Times Sports section as much as that in any other part of the newspaper. – Yours, etc,
John Burns,
Grove Avenue,
Blackrock,
Dublin.
Source: The Irish Times · Thu Nov 12 2026 - 06:00 • 1 MIN READ
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