A COUPLE of weeks ago Owen Brennan contacted me. He is the executive chairman of Devenish who sponsor our health columns. He was alerting me to the then upcoming launch of The Rose Paterson Trust. He was able to facilitate an introduction to Rose’s husband, also Owen.

I had met Rose Paterson on a few occasions, and I knew of her husband, primarily through his work as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. He was in that office when Queen Elizabeth made her historic visit to Ireland a decade ago.