To the mothers who shaped our modern society

Today is the first Mother’s Day that I will spend without my mother Peggy who passed away last September. We were the best of pals. I was her first born and the two of us were learning it all together. My earliest memory is the joyful attention and interaction that we had.

Peggy was a new mother of the 1960s with an aspirant and ambitious attitude like many wonderful young mothers of the time. They have helped shape the society we live in today.

This generation of mothers created the new and better belief that we have in ourselves and helped drag us out of the dark and dreary society of repression into the 20th Century.

Mother’s Day will never be the same for me. I now understand the sadness of those who have lost their mothers. This is a special day for the mothers who are still with us and the mothers who continue to watch over us. Gerard Corrigan,

Castletroy, Co. Limerick.