Myra Ryall: 'Lockdown gave me time to walk in Ballyhoura and Doneraile, time to use my artistic brain'

Myra is co-owner, along with her husband, Ray O’Callaghan, of Townhouse Interiors and Townhouse Café in Doneraile, North Cork

Myra Ryall in the outdoor seating area at Townhouse Interiors & Café, Doneraile. Picture Denis Minihane.

“We always said ‘we’ll meet at the gooseberry bushes’,” says Myra Ryall, recalling childhood games with her siblings on the family farm in the foothills of the Ballyhoura Mountains.

When your rendezvous point for childhood play is a fruit bush, it’s a sure bet sustainability is going to be in your bones.