Dear Editor, Mary Kenny’s piece on blind cricket commentator Dean du Plessis, of Zimbabwe, was very interesting (IC 18/02/2016). She says: “Mr du Plessis, aged 39, was born with serious tumours in his head, and it was predicted at birth that he could only live for a brief time. But he survived, had medical care and is today renowned all over the sports world for his ability to describe, on air, the course of a cricket match.”
In fact, his was just the type of life-limiting condition that would mark out a child for abortion, if some of our politicians had their way. How unwise it is to write anyone off!
Yours etc.,
Siobhan Hall,
Athlone, Co. Westmeath.