New solicitor 95% visually impaired

Sinead Kane has been 95 per cent visually impaired from birth, yet she has managed so far to obtain a BCL and an LLM from UCC…

Sinead Kane has been 95 per cent visually impaired from birth, yet she has managed so far to obtain a BCL and an LLM from UCC, writes Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Editor.

Yesterday she qualified as a solicitor and collected her parchment from the Law Society.

“It was very difficult,” she said. “I had to spend extra time reading. In second year I got fed up and my mother brought me over to London to see a judge who’s blind.”

She is hopeful that she will get a job, as she has proved she works that bit harder.

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