Dreams from my father

The late Gerry O’Sullivan was a pioneer in the field of cancer research. But he had a playful side, too, his daughter Orla Dolan recalls for Helen O’Callaghan

ORLA Dolan was six when her cousin, Chiara, fell off a swing in Bantry and split open her chin. Straightaway, Orla’s dad, Professor Gerry O’Sullivan, said: ‘Give me a needle and thread and put on the kettle’.

“He stitched her up right there, and it was the first time I made the connection that dad was a healer, that he fixed people.”