From Daly Planet: Critics of Big Brother have never been convinced that the reality TV show has any merit as a social experiment. Yet, as the final series draws to a close, it can be credited with teaching us one thing — people love to tan.While the design of the house, the challenges and the [...]
From Daly Planet: The new Criminal Bill allowing householders to use force to defend themselves and their property seems in many ways to unnecessary in as much as the current law already allows that option IF the householder has no way to retreat from the threat of violence. I thought it would be interesting to [...]
From Daly Planet: By Susan DalyFriday Jul 23 2010THE thrill of the chase is not confined to the track during the Galway Races. While some racegoers admittedly come to watch hundreds of kilos of horseflesh sweating to the finishing line, for many the excitement is all in the heaving throngs of bodies in the course [...]
From Daly Planet: The Galway Races are upon us so for the Irish Independent’s special supplement, I got a guided tour of Galway hotspots by TG4 weatherman Daithi O Se:DID you hear the one about the Kerry weatherman who got caught in the rain without a brolly? Dingle native Daithi O Se is used to [...]
From Daly Planet: A few years ago, a book title proposed a simple six-word explanation for shoddy male romantic behaviour: He’s Just Not That Into You.The book was inspired by an episode of Sex and the City — of course — in which Carrie’s boyfriend Berger claims that women waste too much time trying to [...]
From Daly Planet: The bride wore white and the groom wore a proud grin from ear to ear.The photograph of Brian O’Driscoll and Amy Huberman in the porch of a church in Leitrim in their finery is shaping up to be the most reproduced wedding pic of the year.The image of a beloved sportsman and [...]
From Daly Planet: My Friday Nightwatch column from the Irish Independent:Friday July 16 2010Surely the surprising thing is not that Lindsay Lohan is going to jail on Tuesday — it’s not even that she had ‘Fuck U’ painted across her fingernails for her probation hearing.I mean, come on, I’ve had expletives written on my nails [...]
From Daly Planet: My Friday Nightwatch column from the Irish Independent:Friday July 16 2010Surely the surprising thing is not that Lindsay Lohan is going to jail on Tuesday — it’s not even that she had ‘Fuck U’ painted across her fingernails for her probation hearing.I mean, come on, I’ve had expletives written on my nails [...]
From Daly Planet: My review, in 700 words, of Christopher Nolan’s Inception from the Irish Independent’s Day and Night magazine:INCEPTION (12A, General release) ****Summer season at the cinema is not traditionally a good time to go looking for smart, original films. Expectations have weighed heavily on Christopher Nolan’s Inception to cut a swathe through the [...]
From Daly Planet: My review, in 700 words, of Christopher Nolan’s Inception from the Irish Independent’s Day and Night magazine:INCEPTION (12A, General release) ****Summer season at the cinema is not traditionally a good time to go looking for smart, original films. Expectations have weighed heavily on Christopher Nolan’s Inception to cut a swathe through the [...]
