Cork Examiner - Thursday 19 January 1865
  THE LOSS OF THE LELIA. A branch pilot of this port, Edward Sweeny, proceeded to Liverpool last week, with the view of piloting the Lelia, a blockade-runner which foundered near the north-western lightship, off Liverpool, on last Saturday night. The pilot, Sweeny, belonged to Queenstown, and up to yesterday, considerable anxiety with respect to his fate was felt in Queenstown[Cobh]. A telegram was forwarded yesterday by his friends to ascertain whether he had perished, and the reply received was to the effect that he was amongst the unfortunate number who were lost. Sweeny was young man in the prime of life, his age being twenty-seven; and what adds to the grief felt in Queenstown for his loss is that he has left two young children, and wife within a few weeks of her confinement. A melancholy coincidence in connection with his death is, that about the same time - in the recent storm - his step-father, a sailor named Hennessy, went down with the True Blue, which foundered off Boulogne.

Cork Daily Herald - Thursday 19 January 1865
  SEVERE FAMILY AFFLICTION
  The truth of the old adage that "troubles seldom come singly" has been striking illustration in a family in Queenstown. A telegram has been received by the brother-in-law of the pilot Edward Sweeny, officially notifying his death at the foundering of the ill-fated blockade runner Lelia, which haa already appeared in this paper. He was a young man of about 27 years of age, and was much respected in Queenstown both as a good and obedient son, and as a good and kind husband. He leaves to mourn his loss two children and a widow, who is within a few weeks of her accouchement. His stepfather, a seaman named Hennessy, was also drowned on the same day (Saturday), at the wreck of the brig True Blue, off the harbour of Boulogne, which was detailed in yesterday's paper. Thus two women were bereft of their protectors - the one by the loss of her husband, and the other by that of her husband and her son - by the disastrous gale of Saturday.