Julie Jay: Irish holidays remind us that our job as parents is to make the best of it

When you’re a parent on holiday your job is to be optimistic to the point of full-on delusion

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I am starting a campaign to reward parents who have embraced their inner patriot and decided to holiday in Ireland this summer. They are the true heroes, marching through the elements: windswept, wet, but not defeated.

“Sure, the kids don’t mind a little breeze,” these weather warriors say, their chirp belying the fact they are saturated to their knickers and the storm they are bracing has just been named something menacing like Clodagh or Conall.