Beginner’s Pluck: Michael O’Higgins

Michael started life as a journalist. He worked for Hot Press, writing news-based stories, and eventually moved to Magill. He was at the stage of securing a staff job, but he’d always wanted to study law.

“For the first five years, when I was studying for the Bar, and when times were lean, I worked night shifts on news at RTÉ.” Called to the Bar in 1987, he became a senior counsel in 2000.

“I was 28 when I became a barrister, and I always meant to write fiction alongside it, but suddenly I was 44.”