Lively debut from legal eagle O’Higgins
For the most part, it’s a solid and engaging effort, though it takes a while for the plot to get going in earnest
Fiction: Snapshots
By Michael O’Higgins
New Island Books, €14.95
Reviewed by Kevin Power
Michael O’Higgins is one of those debut novelists who happen to be famous already – in this case, as a barrister.
O’Higgins “took silk” in 2000 and, since then, has become one of Ireland’s best-known senior counsels.
Highlights of his legal career include a cross-examination of lobbyist Frank Dunlop at the Mahon Tribunal and a spell defending Sean FitzPatrick during ...