Getting stuck in to their dream jobs

Joy Watts from Dublin with Noel McMeel, executive head chef, Castle Leslie Estate, Co Monaghan.

Joy Watts got stuck into cooking as soon as she arrived at Castle Leslie Cookery School and found out how to make hassle-free shortbread, using the chef’s own recipe and how to cut goat’s cheese cleanly using a strand of ordinary sewing thread.

By lunchtime, however, Joy was so tired she had to ask for some time out and that was no problem. Noel asked Joy how she had overcome the daily challenges posed by rheumatoid arthritis.