Clodagh Finn: Labour of the Bridgets paved way for Irish diaspora success

I’ll be dedicating our double bank holiday to those courageous women who struck out, often because of starvation and poverty, to forge new lives in an often hostile land

Kay Daly and her siblings were hailed as the ‘most successful sister acts in US business’.

"Every woman alive loves Chanel No 5.” The advertising slogan might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Irish diaspora ahead of St Patrick’s Day tomorrow, but it was written by an Irish woman who, at one point, was said to be the highest-paid female executive in the US.

In fact, in 1949, Kathleen ‘Kay’ Daly and her three siblings were hailed as the “most successful sister acts in US business”.