When Maura McNally took over as Chair of the Bar Council in July a year ago she said her aim for the end of her first 12 months was to make sure that there was a Bar of Ireland in existence (my emphasis). It was meant as a flip comment, but it was also a reflection of just how deeply the pandemic was hitting barristers in the pocket. More than two in five respondents to a Bar Council survey the previous May had said they had seen their incomes fall by more than 80 per cent.  The drop was hardly…

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