Sir, – In Ray Burke’s excellent article about Galway Cathedral, he did not mention the work that went into the Stations of the Cross (“Ireland’s last stone-built cathedral: ‘It can be seen for many miles out at sea’,” An Irish Diary, May 5th).
These were done by Gabriel Hayes, a noted sculptor and designer.
Hayes designed several of the new coins in 1971 for decimalisation and is also remembered for her wonderful sculpture panels on the building for the Department of Industry, as it was then known, on Kildare Street, Dublin. She worked on the panels in situ, 23 metres from ground level, suspended in a wooden cage.
She was married to Seán P Ó Ríordáin, an archaeologist who worked at the National Museum of Ireland. They lived for a time in Monkstown, Co Cork. – Yours, etc,
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Joe Burns,
Monkstown,
Cork.
