Room to Improve: Dermot Bannon flips butcher shop into tasty home

Charlestown's Karen Mulligan has 'regenerated a small part of the town she loves', says the architect 

For the first time since she was a child, Karen Mulligan is living above the shop she grew up in.

Or, as architect Dermot Bannon says, at least “the memory” of that sacred space in Charlestown, Co Mayo.