It requires nerves of steel, extraordinary courage and remarkable determination to have children in Ireland today.
Despite all our self-congratulatory talk about family values and the like, we have somehow managed to create a very cold house indeed when it comes to young people struggling to raise their kids.
Young people with ambitions to start a family are being forced to wait – the average age of the modern Irish mother is 30 years, and rising.
Read this full opinion piece in The Herald here
