Clodagh Finn: Tell the body-shamers where to go and enjoy your outdoor summer

Body dissatisfaction has also been working away, quietly and corrosively, behind closed doors over the last 15 months.

Two in three young women in Ireland have such a negative body image that they avoid a school event or, in some cases, even the doctor, because they don’t like how they look.

Oh no, here it comes; peak body-shaming season. The annual exhortation to get into shape for summer has already begun.

Add a bit of early June sun to the ongoing obsession with losing the so-called Covid stone and it looks as if we’re heading into the eye of a perfect body-image storm.