Lofty heights for ship-shape apartment

HOME is the sailor, home from the sea — and 5 Ard Cuan in Kinsale’s Ardbrack Heights is no bad spot to drop anchor at.

Former interior designer, and now Kinsale restaurant owner, Tracy Keoghan, has seen the world, and the posher, richer parts of it, from her days working on design and interior touches in motor yachts and sailing boats for the famous, and/or the merely rich. She has worked in some of the world’s glamour spots — such as Antigua, starting as a mere 21 year old and keen for adventure.

She has worked on boats for the Morgan family, of Morgan Stanley banking fame, as well as for the late Pink Floyd musician Richard Wright in the south of France, lived and sailed in Kefalonia in Greece and on board a yacht for a period in the Virgin Islands.