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BACK PAGES:OLIVER J FLANAGAN, the Fine Gael TD for Laois-Offaly, famously (and risibly) said there was no sex in Ireland before television. What he presumably meant was that there was no public discussions of sex before television, and a TV review by Ken Gray on this day in 1967 shows he might have had a point, as television seemed to turn everything into a discussion of sex, writes JOE JOYCE.

American sex symbol Jayne Mansfield was due to appear at a cabaret in Tralee but the owners of the Mount Brandon hotel cancelled the show after the bishop of Kerry, Denis Moynihan, urged people not to attend. The local parish priest, Mgr John Lane, called on Tralee people to dissociate themselves “from this attempt to besmirch the name of our town for the sake of filthy gain” (Mansfield was to receive £1,000 for the appearance).