James Geddis Kernohan

While at Queen’s University, Belfast, James Geddis Kernohan (“Jim”) honed his talents for rowing, which were rewarded by a seat in the university’s “first boat.”

He first met his future wife, Sandra in 1971 at the Ulster Hospital, Belfast, where they were both working, Jim as a final year medical student and Sandra as a staff nurse. They were married in 1973, at which time Jim was working as a pathology demonstrator at the Royal Victoria Hospital. As an added challenge to his training programme and his French linguistic skills; …