David O'Mahony: Hopefully my Father's Day trip to Metallica will be the first of many gigs with my kids

This weekend is my chance to rack up some unforgettable moments for them, like my dad did for me

The first time I saw Metallica was July 1999 in what was still the Point Depot. File photo: Yui Mok/PA

By the time you read this, I should have survived the first instalment of taking my life into my own hands for the weekend.

“Should” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. And well it, um, should. For, you see, in what's unexpectedly become a sort of Father's Day long weekend, I am taking two of my children to different Metallica concerts in Dublin along with my nephew, and the first of those was last night.