Sir, – Perhaps Jennifer O'Connell in her column should have referred to the taking on of her own surname ("Bear Mel Gibson's example in mind, Mrs Clooney", October 21st).
To quote from her column, “but you’ll never take away my surname”.
Presumably her mother took her husband’s name of O’Connell on her marriage and left behind her own “maiden name”, so why didn’t Ms O’Connell take on her mother’s original surname to use, rather than her father’s? This would be the logical step for her to take, even at this late stage, when she now criticises Amal Alamuddin for taking on her new husband’s name of Clooney! Is it not Mrs Clooney’s business as to what decision she has made in this regard and no one else’s? – Yours, etc,
DAVE KAVANAGH,
Clontarf, Dublin 3.