Sarah Breen: On a traditional Irish staycation, you have to go looking for the fun

I was recently served a reel on Instagram with the dramatic caption “you only get 18 summers with your kids”. It was in the context of going on holidays, a series of clips of happy children building sandcastles and jumping in a pool, with the kind of soaring music designed to activate a mother’s tear ducts. We are, after all, forever complaining about how fast the time goes.