Diary

My week: Distiller Lora Hemy on a house move, a new whiskey, and taking her records to NYC

The stress of a jam-packed week is eased by a visit from family, and a gamelan session at the National Concert Hall

Lora Hemy of Roe & Co: ‘I’m renovating a house, so it’s all hands on deck

Thursday, February 16

I’m on leave this week, as I’m moving house. I’ve lived in The Liberties since I moved to Dublin from Scotland, and purely coincidentally, the house where I’ve been living is almost exactly where the still house from the original Roe family distillery was built.

I’m renovating a house just round the corner, so it’s all hands on deck before I move in at the weekend. I pop out for a coffee ...