18/07 Tales From The Tabs

Tales From The Tabs

In the Irish Daily Star Sunday there’s a story that will be of interest to any man who has been forced to mark time while the other half spends half the day getting ready upstairs.

Fake tan (for which Clonskeagh, it seems, is the Irish capital) is often one of the requirements for social occasions of any importance, but one of the country’s top designers has slammed Irish women for the amount of value they place on their orange-ness.

Peter O’Brien, a judge on TV3’s Style Wars who has designed for the A-Wear chain of women’s clothing retailers, said, “We need to tell young Irish girls that they’re pretty and attractive and they don’t need to disguise themselves as Winnie Mandela.”

He went on, “I’ve seen women with fake tan on who think they look like they’re from Brazil, but they don’t. They just look like they come from Clonskeagh in Dublin and have painted themselves orange.”

Also in the Star Sunday, there’s the touching story of star rapper Eminem’s tribute to a tragic young Irishman who succumbed to cystic fibrosis earlier this month.

David Smith, a 28-year-old from Naas, Co Kildare, had been in line to meet his idol at the Oxegen music festival at nearby Punchestown Racecourse last weekend before losing his life to the crippling illness.

During his headline set at Oxegen, Eminem paid tribute to David by saying, “I hope I don’t f*** this up but this next song I wanna dedicate to a very special person. He’s a little man from Ireland. His name is David Smith.

“He was supposed to be here tonight at this concert but unfortunately he passed away last night. So look man, I know he’s not here with us tonight but he’s here in spirit.”

The Detroit superstar then launched into a stirring rendition of “Sing For The Moment” while concert-goers raised cigarette lighters and mobile phones in tandem.