The house that Goose built
Ruth McGahey with son Hugh and dog Molly at home in Meath
Sometimes it feels as though our homes find us, rather than the other way around. After nine years in London, Ruth McGahey and her husband, Andrew, put their four-bedroom Balham Victorian terrace house on the market and decided to return home to Ireland.
“We had been searching for a place to live, but without much luck,” Ruth reminisces. “My friend Róisín called and told me that she passed a house on her way to work every day, that it was for sale, and that she thought it would be perfect for us.” Seven years after that fortuitous tip-off, Ruth, Andrew and their three children are in situ in County Meath, where the pair have been lovingly renovating the five-bed home ever since.
