Bill Linnane: How I bribed my 17-year-old son to come on a week-long family holiday with us

The days of our 17-year-old joining a family road trip to Donegal are numbered – then I’ll finally get control of the music again

Choosing their own music is the only way teens survive family road trips, but that doesn't make it easier to listen to. Photo: Getty

Convincing a teenager to be anywhere in public with you is hard. Convincing them to go on holiday with you for a week is even harder. And it is harder again to convince them to go on holiday with you when you are holidaying in Ireland.

My 17-year-old’s first question when I asked if he would like to come on holiday with us was, ‘What’s in Donegal?’ It was a fair question – living down here at the opposite end of the country, it does seem

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