Sheena McCarthy, founding father of Sheena’s Boutique in Cork, has been a loyal patron for over a decade (her husband Tommy McCarthy is on the advisory board) and fashionably says: ‘Something goes. You see opera jackets and stylish prints, tweed jackets and fur-trimmed shawls, lengthy attire and sneakers.” Final 12 months’s gala night endured pelting rain, so she swapped her fabulous Sara Roka ankle-length taffeta gown for a black gabardine coat and high-waisted palazzos. “It is good to decorate up, to put on one thing glamorous, even when it is only a good silk wrap, a giant pearl choker and attention-grabbing earrings.” Lismore’s lovely terraced gardens require wise footwear. Sheena wears a nude or gold wedge heel: “Heels simply do not work on gravel paths.”