Age is just a number — and no one else’s business

Considering the taste for tabloid fervour across the English Channel, Ireland has something akin to a Gallic disinterest in our politicians’ private indiscretions, writes Clodagh Finn

YOU have to admire the way the new first couple of France has come out ahead of the posse to fend off comments about the 24-year difference in their ages.

Newly elected president Emmanuel Macron said it was misogynist to think he could not be in love with his wife, Brigitte Trogneux, just because he is 39 and she is 64. If he does nothing more in his presidency, that in itself is a worthwhile message to hammer home. Allez, Monsieur Macron.