Woodenbridge memorial park

Sir, – I would like to thank all those involved in establishing the Woodenbridge World War One Memorial Park ("Woodenbridge park to mark Wicklow dead of first World War", September 18th). A hundred years ago John Redmond urged Irishmen to go "wherever the firing line extends in defence of right, of freedom and religion in this war". My great-uncles, Edward and George Kearon, answered Redmond's call, and died together at sea on November 10th, 1917, aged only 17 and 19.

For far too long, all these forgotten heroes of Co Wicklow went unremembered, but this park remedies that wrong. – Yours, etc,

STEPHEN KEARON,

Ballinacarrig Lower,

Ballinaclash, Co Wicklow.