‘Growing up, my glasses meant I was seen as a comic figure – I wanted my book to show you can still win out’: Author Tom McAndrew on eyesight, operations, and writing his first crime novel

Tom McAndrew (51) from Belmullet in Co Mayo has just published his first cosy crime novel. Tom also has a degenerative eyesight condition. He lives in Dublin, with his wife and two children, aged nine and 11