Exceptional islanders

THERE is a dispute currently involving Fingal County Council over the ownership of St Patrick’s Island off Skerries in Co Dublin.

Exceptional islanders
Fri, 14 Jan, 2005 - 00:00

It reminds me of the famous line from John Donne, greatest of the metaphysical poets: “No man is an island.”

But some people don’t seem to fit: Charlie Haughey (Inishvickillane) and Lord Revelstoke (Lambay Island), to name only two.

Thomas Studley

56 Orwell Road

Rathgar

Dublin 6.

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