Hyperlinks in text difficult to touch

I am developing an iPad only app and testing on an iPad 2. The app is a news reader type app with lots of scrolling text that contains hyperlinks.

The font size I am using for the body text is 15.

I am experiencing difficulties "touching" the hyperlinks and wondered if there are any tips to improve this.

In case it is of any help, here is the code I use though I suspect it is more due to the text size.

My fingers are not fat:)

var strLink:String = "http://www.google.com";

var strTitle:String = "Dummy Title";

var whatsNewText:String = '<a href = "event:' + strLink + '">' + strTitle + '</a>' + '\n';

objApp.sidePanelObject.whatsNewTxt.htmlText = whatsNewText;

objApp.sidePanelObject.whatsNewTxt.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, linkHandler);

function linkHandler(linkEvent:TextEvent):void {

          playClickSound();

          displayPassedWebsite(linkEvent.text);

}