From Daly Planet: Women’s magazines have always been a competitive market, growing increasingly so as impulse buys at the newsstand dwindle and each has to jostle for attention on the shelves. I had a look at what Irish mag editors believe catches the consumer’s eye.Interesting factoid: Women don’t like men on their magazine covers, not [...]

From Daly Planet: Published in Irish Independent Review, Saturday, July 10, 2010The decadent antics of Dublin socialites have been a rich seam of inspiration for author Fiona O’Brien this past eight years.A former advertising executive who was born, bred and is still living in the D4 area, she has written entertainingly and with authority on [...]

From Daly Planet: By SUSAN DALY (from last Saturday’s Weekend mag in the Irish IndependentWOMEN who look like Scarlett Johansson, wisdom has it, can pretty much do what they like. But even Scarlett might be pushing it with her latest demand. She has decided that she would be just perfect to play wild woman rocker [...]

From Contrapposto:
There are two very different, but complimentary shows at The Glucksman this summer: Mixtapes, an international group show which is good fun and a bit whacky, and From The Sources, a sound art installation by Mel Mercier that has deeper historical resonances. After the rather dry and long-running Thingamajig exhibition, the gallery feels energised [...]

From Daly Planet: From today’s Irish Independent:By Susan DalyThere are days when it’s tempting to run away and join the circus but for most the fantasy is rarely realised. Not so for one girl who travelled 8,000km to join the circus — and found love in the process.Contortionist Wang Dan (Dani) and resident clown Otto [...]

From Daly Planet: From today’s Irish Independent:By Susan DalyThere are days when it’s tempting to run away and join the circus but for most the fantasy is rarely realised. Not so for one girl who travelled 8,000km to join the circus — and found love in the process.Contortionist Wang Dan (Dani) and resident clown Otto [...]

From Contrapposto:
There is something visceral about Oliver Comerford’s painting. The colours verge on super-saturation, which adds to their hyper-real edge. And his paintings are edgy – they focus on dark, roadside places, with a finish that owes its origins to photo-realism but stops short of the full trompe l’oeil that might distract from the concept by wowing with painterly [...]

From Daly Planet: This will be a court case to watch when it comes up in the Irish High Court in the coming 12 months. A number of Roaccutane-related lawsuits are also pending in the US (where the drug was sold under the name Accutane).From last Saturday’s Review section in the Irish Independent:By Susan DalyLiam [...]

From Daly Planet: LIPSTICK, cheap jewellery, drink bottles and household detergents – what does this list say to you? To most folks, it reads like a pretty mundane collection of everyday objects. To more exciteable souls, these items all come dripping with hidden sexual meanings.Since time immemorial, humans have been obsessed with sex and how [...]

From Daly Planet: ‘Lads, gags and shags’ mags might be falling in sales but, SUSAN DALY asks, have readers’ tastes really changed – or are they just gone elsewhere?WHAT men want is what marketers the world over want to know. Nearly 300 years ago, the first men’s magazine appeared to have it all figured out.The [...]