Bill Linnane: Watching my daughter head off on her first sun holiday with her pals totally terrifies me

I never went on a lads sun holiday. In the seven years between finishing secondary school and becoming a parent, I was usually too broke to jump on a plane and go on the sesh in the sun. Most people were back then, as those were the halcyon days before flights cost less than a train ticket. After graduating from college, I did briefly suggest I might head off to Spain with the lads, but at that stage I had a four-month-old daughter so really the moment had passed.