[3] He has featured, over a period of nearly 40 years, on multiple radio and television programmes on RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland channels,[2] and has contributed, as he still does, regular columns for Irish newspapers and magazines, over more than 30 years, including the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and the Farmers Journal.
[2] His father, John Daly, was an agricultural instructor,[4] horticultural advisor and commercial fruit grower,[5] and both his parents were keen gardeners at the family residence at Bohreen Hill,[5] in Enniscorthy.
[6] Daly joined Irish national broadcaster RTÉ as a senior producer in 1979, and designed the Ask About Gardening radio show.
[6] Co-presenters on Greenfingers included horticultural scientist and weed specialist David Robinson and Crosbie Cochrane.
[15] Daly is gardening columnist for the Sunday Independent, for more than thirty years, as well as the Evening Herald and the leading agricultural newspaper, the Farmers Journal.