“I wasn’t expecting it. It wasn’t something in my family” 

William Lyne, a former prostate cancer patient at CUH, is very glad he had an early diagnosis. He talks to Rita de Brún

William Lyne, from Kerry, who is very glad that his operation at Cork University Hospital was a success: "I’m in flying form now and I’d go through it all again if I had to."

Born in County Kerry, just a few minutes outside Killarney town, William Lyne has been living in The Kingdom ever since. Together, he and his wife, Philomena, are parents to six children and grandparents to 11 more.

We talk at midday on a bright, crisp morning. The topic is the prostate cancer surgery he underwent at Cork University Hospital (CUH) in May last year.