Slain doctor’s family travel to US

THE elderly mother and brother of slain Irish cardiologist Dr Brian McGovern flew to Boston yesterday to make arrangements for his funeral in America.

Patrick McGovern, a partner with Patrick Cox solicitors in Dublin, accompanied his mother Josephine on the flight. They are expected to stay with Brian's wife, Anne Jennings, and the couple's children, Caitríona and Deirdre, at the family home in the suburb of Boxford.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by Campbell Funeral Home in nearby Beverly, close to the hospital where Dr Jennings, a kidney specialist, works.