Perhaps Meg’s sage words are lost on children

MEGHAN and Prince Harry marked son Archie’s second birthday with a black and white photo of the tot standing alone with his back to the viewer in an enormous garden, his hand clasping a bunch of balloons. And no sign whatsoever of his mother’s first children’s book The Bench which, according to the blurb, celebrates the father-child relationship ‘through an inclusive lens’. Perhaps little Archie found the book as dull, worthy and unchild-friendly as it sounds.

➤➤ THE virtual farewell tribute to retiring RTÉ journalist Tommie Gorman ruffled staff feathers due to the presence of Tommie’s good friend Denis O’Brien at the so-called ‘event’. Now I’m no fan of Denis’s but I’m more aghast at such a lame celebration for an RTÉ lifer like Tommie. It says it all about RTÉ’s flair for entertainment that it considers a snoozefest with talking heads a treat rather than a trial.