‘I’m not great, not the cleverest but I’m awfully handy with a sharp knife’

John Breslin speaks with State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy about her passion for her job.

PROFESSOR Marie Cassidy clearly loves her job. The State Pathologist confesses to watching most television programmes on forensic pathology and talks about the subject all the time.

So much so, she joked during an address to a packed hall in Dublin’s Royal College of Surgeons, this was her best night out of the week.