Jennifer Horgan: I hate to say this but I hope my daughters will have small breasts
Women and girls should be able to love their bodies but we have to deal with feelings of inadequacy or the exhausting spotlight of unwanted attention — the apparent fate of those with 'small' or 'big' breasts respectively.
Taoiseach Simon Harris wishes for Ireland to be the best place in the world to be a child. It’s a fine wish, possibly the finest.
Wishing things for our children reminds me of one of my favourite poems, , by Philip Larkin. It was written on the birth of Kingsley Amis’ daughter, Sally, for whom Larkin wishes not the ‘usual stuff,’ but that she be ‘ordinary’. Ordinariness, he writes, offers her the best chance of ‘catching’ happiness.
