Bernard O’Shea: The Dad Bod Diaries Week 10 — Bread and me... it's complicated

In my 20s, bread was fuel. I could eat it with abandon. Now, at 46, the same bread appears to behave differently

USE YOUR LOAF: 'Bread delivers comfort quickly. Within minutes, you feel calmer, warmer, and slightly more in control.'

Bread and I go back a long way. We grew up together. Bread was present at almost every major moment of my childhood. School lunches, GAA matches, communion teas, long car journeys, and the slice your mother cut “just to keep you going”.

Bread was never simply a food in Irish houses. It was infrastructure. It was the scaffolding that held the day together.