Sir, – Thank you for printing the interesting article on the Abbey Island graveyard in Derrynane (“Island graveyard in Derrynane national park to be extended”, Home News, March 8th).
However, for the record, I would just like to rectify a few inaccuracies in the report. My father, Dr Daniel O’Connell, was a radiotherapist in the National Health Service in London for the vast majority of his career. Both he and my mother (a radiologist in the NHS, and who died aged 87) were passionate supporters of free health care for everyone. In the last few years of his career he helped set up the Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital in Penang, run by the Sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood. He was a great, great grandson of the Liberator and very proud to be so. – Yours, etc,