Marie Cassidy

Professor Marie Therese Jane Cassidy (born 1951) is the State Pathologist for the Republic of Ireland.^[1]

Background

Marie Cassidy was born in Rutherglen, Glasgow, United Kingdom, in 1951, the granddaughter of emigrants from Donegal.^[2] She presently lives in Dublin and is married with two children.

Cassidy studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, graduating in January 1978. She became a member of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1985 and a forensic pathologist the same year, making her the first female full-time forensic pathologist in the United Kingdom. She held a professorship of forensic medicine at the University of Glasgow before moving to Ireland in 1998 to take up the position of Deputy State Pathologist.^[3] She was appointed to the position of State Pathologist in January 2004, succeeding Professor John Harbison to become the first female State Pathologist in Ireland.^[4] She is also Professor of Forensic Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and Trinity College, Dublin.

Cassidy has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations, helping to identify the remains of victims of war crimes in Bosnia.^[5]

She has acted as a consultant to the television crime series Taggart. A character in the book The Human Body is based on her.

Cassidy announced her intended retirement as State Pathologist of Ireland on 7 September 2018.

^ "State Pathologist's Office". Department of Justice and Equality:. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
^ Moonan, Niall (2005). "STATE PATHOLOGIST MARIE CASSIDY TELLS OF HER GRUESOME WORK". The Mirror.
^ Quinlan, Ailin (13 December 2010). "What I did today... Professor Marie Cassidy State Pathologist". Irish Independent. Dublin: Independent News & Media. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ Press release on appointment as state pathologist Archived 12 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ Raleigh, David. "Meet Marie Cassidy - Ireland's first female state pathologist". The Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2 July 2014.

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