Julie Jay: Our anger can blindside us when we least expect it - even as parents

Anger is a perfectly normal human emotion, but it’s how we channel it that matters

Being a parent is to experience moments of inexplicable anger on a regular basis, sometimes for no discernible reason at all. 

This morning’s crimes against mammies had me once again seeing red and on the brink of ringing Joe Duffy. As I held my phone in my hand, I managed to talk myself down from dialling RTÉ by imagining how the conversation would inevitably go.