Three well-known Irish people tell what family mealtimes were like for them growing up

Helen O’Callaghan hears some fond memories from family meal times through the recollections of celebrities and their mothers.

FAMILY mealtimes are when tastes and experiences converge.

Tucking into your favourite dish, stubbornly resisting foods you didn’t like, the interrupted conversations, the row and repartee, stories told and heard – it’s when so much of family life happened.