Good breeding and horse sense – how Charlie Haughey’s daughter Eimear took life by the reins

The thing that catches the eye in Eimear Mulhern’s stunning modernist home in Kinsealy are the portraits that hang on the wall, the famous blood lines there to see. Mulhern’s maternal grandfather Seán Lemass is there – taoiseach, Fianna Fáil leader, economic reformer, 1916 rebel – pensive pipe in hand..