Fighting for his Dreams: Piaras McGarry Trying to Make it as Mixed Martial Artist in America
BY MICHAEL DESANTIS
Piaras McGarry was fresh out of college in May, 2017 after earning his degree in engineering. He was set for a stable job as an engineer in Northern Ireland that he says would have become a very lucrative job once he built tenure. However, something didn’t feel right to him.
McGarry, 22 years old and well over six feet tall and 205 pounds, says he thought about how his future would look. Despite it including a reliable source of income, he didn’t want to spend his whole life working a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. job.