Sir, - Prof John Dillon's article "Walking back to whole new life" (Health, October 26th) made interesting and heartening reading. However, lest his statement that "there are still only two places in the Republic where bypasses can be carried out, the Blackrock Clinic and the Mater Private Hospital" go unchallenged, I have to say that bypass operations have been carried out for some years at the University College Hospital, Cork.
How do I know? I underwent the operation there in mid-August. - Yours, etc., The Rt Rev R. A. Warke,
Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, The Palace, Bishop Street, Cork.