Looking back on love

Our first relationships often fall prey to naivety and end in tears. For Valentine’s Day, Sue Leonard asks five writers to reflect on their own teen experiences.

WE never forget our first love — but those fledgling romances are often laced with anxiety and pain. If we could live those teen years again, with the hindsight of greater experience, there is much we would like to change.

Five leading Irish writers look back on that first step towards maturity.