Man, 90, in 1,000km trip for eye surgery

A 90-year-old West Cork man who endured a 1,000km journey for an eye operation is doing well.

John Patrick Harrington from Coomhola in Bantry, Co Cork, is blind in one eye and was rapidly losing sight in the other before travelling to Kingsbridge Hospital in Belfast for the procedure.

He was told he could be waiting up to four years to have the operation here but it only took 25 days to arrange to have the procedure in Kingsbridge last month as part of a cross-border initiative.