This Working Life: ‘It has been interesting to see how much your status and self-perspective are tied up with your job’Writer, event organiser and former lawyer James Candon chats to Mary McCarthy about his involvement in business and the arts, and being married to a former MEPBusinessman James CandonIn conversation with Mary McCarthy Today at 06:30I was 17 when I went to study law in UCD in 1990. At school in Boyle, Co Roscommon, I was interested in science and biology, but I did not take up the CAO offer to study genetics in Queen’s as I was scared of maths.

Source: Irish Independent March 18, 2026 13:01 UTC