From Daly Planet: How many lovers in a lifetime is too many?Susan Daly finds that today’s world is not as sexually liberated as we think it is.Monday August 09 2010If you thought the dreadful Sex and the City 2 had hammered the final nail into that particular coffin, think again. For Christina Saunders, the SATC-inspired [...]
From Daly Planet: By Susan DalySaturday Aug 7 2010Lady Gaga’s cartoon-style eyes have sparked a dangerous craze for the doe-eyed anime look, with teens buying large circular lenses on the internet reports Susan DalyThe outrageous Lady Gaga has set quite a few trends in her brief time at the top of the pops, from metal-spiked [...]
From Daly Planet: As the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’ celebrates her 32nd birthday, Susan Daly looks at IVF in the 21st CenturySaturday August 07 2010Few postal workers have their birthday marked by the media every year. Louise Brown, the world’s first so-called ‘test-tube baby’, is an exception. Now the mother of a two-year-old boy in [...]
From Daly Planet: WHEN Mary Griffith was a teenager in the 1960s, she never heard the words gay or homosexual. “People would be described as sissies,” she says. “That was the word we used – and I wasn’t even sure what that meant.”Astonishing then that Mary would later become a leading figure in the American [...]
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 [...]
