Richard Hogan: The sign on my daughter’s bedroom is my greatest achievement

As we celebrate International Women's Day, I feel being a dad to girls is the best part of my life

Richard Hogan with his wife Erica and their daughters Sophie, 5, Lizzie, 9, and Hannah 12. Photograph Moya Nolan

Blessed is he amongst women! I often hear this phrase uttered to me from some kindly, old smiling passer-by as I go about my important girl-dad business. The youngest in my arms, the other two chirping at me for whatever has taken their interest at that moment. A jellycat or some squishmallow. 

Of course the eldest is looking for more credit on her phone, or some new eyelash curler. A ‘spoolie’, I think it’s called. Being a girl dad is by far the greatest achievement of my life. "Would you go again, if you knew you’d have the boy?"