Miriam O’Callaghan leading the charge on tackling obesity

Miriam O’Callaghan admits she is not always the “perfect mother” when it comes to buying healthy food for her family.

Ms O’Callaghan, a mother of eight, was speaking at the launch a cross-party Oireachtas group that wants a greater effort made to tackle childhood obesity and food poverty.

Her nine-year-old son, Ms O’Callaghan said, had pestered her in a supermarket this week to buy food that was unhealthy but cheap.