Sir, – Further to Aonghus Dwane's Rite & Reason article of September 2nd ("Retired Church of Ireland archbishop led his community to places they had not been"), and just to keep the record straight, the first woman to be ordained priest in the Republic was Janet Catterall in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork. The first two women priests in the Church of Ireland, Irene Templeton and Kathleen Young, were ordained in Belfast by the Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz. Ginnie Kennerley was the fourth woman priest to be so ordained. – Yours, etc,
Right Rev ROY WARKE,
Kerdiff Park,
Naas, Co Kildare.