Sir, – In response to my recent article on Donald Caird ("Retired Church of Ireland archbishop led his community to places they had not been", September 2nd), the former bishop of Cork, the Right Rev Roy Warke, rightly observes (September 11th) that the first woman priest to be ordained in the Church of Ireland in the Republic, Janet Catterall, was ordained in that city.
That is why I stated that Rev Ginnie Kennerley was “one of the first” women ordained in the Republic.
Indeed, as a young solicitor’s apprentice in 1990, I was present in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral when Rev Catterall was ordained and congratulated her afterwards as someone coming from another religious tradition. I am at one with the bishop in feeling that my native Cork’s pre-eminence in this (as in other) matters must never be occluded. – Yours, etc,
AONGHUS DWANE,
Bangor Road,
Kimmage,
Dublin 12.