How Ireland’s first female lift engineer lifted herself out of addiction

A year ago, Susie McConville was a cleaner at a lift-engineering company in Cork. Once, when engineers couldn’t figure out what was wrong with a broken lift, she suggested a solution.

Susie McConville is Ireland’s first female lift engineer, but her early adulthood was marred by tragedy, addiction, and stigma, says Shamim Malekmian.