In awe of ár mná: Five familiar faces reflect on their mother's influence

Unconditional love, selfless sacrifice, and always there for a chat — five well-known Irish voices pay tribute to the mothers who shaped their lives

Miriam O'Callaghan and her mother

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

So wrote Robert Browning — and for many of our writers, how very true those words still ring.