Peaches’ death may focus attention on support young mothers need

I KNOW I should be writing about President Higgins and Queen Elizabeth and the healing of history, but I can’t stop thinking about Peaches Geldof.

Her history hasn’t healed. Her death at 25 leaves her two babies motherless when the focus of her life was being a mother to them.

She knew what it was not to have a mother because she had lost hers. First, her parents’ marriage split up when she was only seven and she was paraded around as part of Michael Hutchence’s new family. Then, when Hutchence died by suicide a year later, she lost all vestige of the mother she knew.