My favourite room: ‘Don’t be a busy fool. It’s important to work smart’ - Inside Dervla Golden’s self-designed and built house in Co Mayo

My favourite room: ‘Don’t be a busy fool. It’s important to work smart’ - Inside Dervla Golden’s self-designed and built house in Co Mayo

We all have places which are special to us and Dervla Golden is no different. There’s Carndonagh in Donegal where she grew up, the beach at nearby Malin Head where she spent her summers in the family mobile home and now Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, where she’s lived for more than 20 years with her husband Brian and their two children and where they’ve built a beautiful home in the countryside.