Dad’s World with Jonathan deBurca Butler

I HAVE waxed lyrical in these pages about the plight of parents and the apparent lack of support from the state. Today I’m in a good place and let me tell you why.

Luke had to go to the doctor’s recently. It had been on the cards for a few days.

He had gone through a period of throwing up and when that went away he got this awful chesty cough that made him sound like a born-again smoker.