Tuesday, 02 March 2021 21:11

From Fermoy, Co. Cork to Nigeria

          Father Denis Joseph SLATTERY (1916 - 2003) Denis Slattery was born in Fermoy, Co Cork, in the diocese of Cloyne, on 29th February 1916. He died in St. Theresa’s Unit, Blackrock Road, Cork, on 7th July 2003. Denis was one of six boys and two girls born to Catherine (nee Curtin) and Timothy Francis Slattery. He was born the seventh child on the odd day of a leap year, that of 1916 – a momentous year…