Catherine refuses to be defined by her age

Margaret Jennings talks to a woman who quit her job in her 30s to be a novelist, married in her 40s, wrote scripts for Fair City and volunteers with sick children in Zambia.

YOU’RE never ‘too old’ to follow your passion nor to use your skills to help out those less fortunate... even if it means hopping on a plane at the age of 73 and travelling 8,000 kilometres to South Africa.

So says Dublin woman, Catherine Brophy, whose feisty attitude brings her to surprising places — she thinks of herself as “quiet and retiring”, but says “the feedback I get from people though is that I’m ‘out there’.”