Beginner’s Pluck: Galway writer and editor Mary O’Donoghue 

“It’s OK to flail around as long as you stay at it. Be willing to let things go.” 

Mary O’Donoghue. Pic: James McNaughton

Brought up on a small farm on the edge of the Burren, Mary was the eldest of three girls. She read early.

“My mother remembers me reading a newspaper aged three.”