This Working Life: Make-do-and-mend ethic shines for MicroPro amid climate risk and cost-of-living squeeze

The firm’s managing director Paul Maher chats to Mary McCarthy about how tinkering with electronics got him into the circular economy before it became a buzzword

‘We are a small business, we charge a fair price so we are not flashy,’ says Paul Maher of MicroPro. Photo: Frank McGrath

Mary McCarthy

I’m a component level engineer, the guy who can open up a circuit board, diagnose and repair.

My business partner Anne Galligan, who is married to my brother John, is the building block of the company. She is accounts, I am hands on. She runs the business in an efficient way and is the opposite of me. I am a fixer, a giver outer. Anne is lovely and we are good together.