Recalling 1960s Ireland's reaction to a Playboy model's arrival in Tralee

Playboy model and film star Jayne Mansfield was due to perform a cabaret act at the Mount Brandon Hotel in Tralee on April 23, 1967, but the all-powerful Catholic Church was having none of it, writes Dan Buckley

Once upon a time in black-and-white TV land the Fine Gael TD for Laois-Offaly declared, risibly, that there was no sex in Ireland before television.

His actual words were, in a critique of The Late Late Show, that “sex never came to Ireland until Telefís Éireann went on the air”.