Esther McCarthy: Why Irish women over 40 are wearing mega frame glasses

Glasses are finally cool, I only had to age 20 odd years. Women over 40 are owning their myopia, but they’re saying we can be short-sighted and stylish, focus on my frames, not my failing sight!

Irish Examiner columnist Esther McCarthy, modelling her new glasses, earlier this week.

It starts with a suppressed snigger. The usual bedlam of a Tuesday morning pauses as I bustle over to the breakfast table. My eldest looks up, lips twitching.

“Good morning, Edna,” he says, all innocence and porridge.