Dear Mr Fanning, I have read your Sunday Independent article dated 21st September 2014 headlined ‘Player education needed to help reduce serious injuries’.<\/p>\n
Many of my friends and relatives have also read it. I think your article is unfair and derogatory of me, and that view is shared by others to whom I have spoken.<\/p>\n
There is no-one involved in sport who should adopt a cavalier attitude to the risks of serious sporting injury. I certainly do not because they can affect not only my livelihood, but my life itself. You have indicated in your article that another interview which I gave about my history of head injury, “beggared belief” with the implication that I treat this matter in some casual or offhand way. In your article, referring to me, you say “. . . whose bell has been rung so often he must feel like a fire engine. . .” Frankly, I don’t actually know what this soundbite of yours is meant to mean, but it is presumably your attempt at a light-hearted jibe about the serious subject that I am being accused by you of trying to trivialise. Dear Mr Fanning, I have read your Sunday Independent article dated 21st September 2014 headlined ‘Player education needed to help reduce serious injuries’. Many of my friends and relatives have also read it. I think your article is unfair and derogatory of me, and that view is shared by others to whom I have spoken. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7977,15045,10413,6908,5815,5745],"class_list":["post-73786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-independent","tag-letter","tag-luke","tag-marshall","tag-sunday","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73787,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73786\/revisions\/73787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– See more at: http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/rugby\/other-rugby\/letter-from-luke-marshall-to-the-sunday-independent-30638730.html#sthash.nDZZ4InR.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"