The State Pathologist, Marie Cassidy, is to retire after 14 years in the role. Prof Cassidy, who has Irish heritage but was born in the Rutherglen suburb of Glasgow, in Scotland, came to Ireland in 1998 after being appointed deputy State pathologist. Six years later she succeeded John Harbison, becoming Ireland’s first woman State Pathologist. Scottish newspapers have speculated that she was the role model for the BBC TV series Silent Witness, in which Amanda Burton played the pathologist Prof Sam Ryan. “I know that she will be greatly missed not just by her colleagues in the Office of the State Pathologist but by all those who work with her in the criminal justice system.”

Source: The Irish Times September 07, 2018 16:08 UTC