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

Snapshot

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 ...