On the double: High-profile people who juggle work with children 

Tommy Martin, journalist and broadcaster, with his son James as he works from home. Picture: Moya Nolan

IT’S the most modern of dilemmas – how to manage work video calls while also caring for your children. “It’s an accident waiting to happen,” says Virgin Media’s Tommy Martin. He is only too aware of the potential pitfalls.

At the start of the lockdown, just after the schools closed, the Ireland AM presenter was reviewing the Sunday papers for Newstalk’s Off the Ball show, which is now streamed on their social channels. “Usually you’re in the studio, chatting with the presenter Joe Molloy and going through the papers, but for the first time, it was via video call. I was sitting at my kitchen table with the newspapers spread out in front of me.”