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A Kilkenny relationship expert is to appear in a new television series on the BBC that deals with marriage problems.

Calling all actors and local drama groups. An exciting but intensive 'Acting for Film and Television Training Course' will be held in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone on October 28, 29, and 30.

Start-up company iFoods.tv sought funding from the multi-millionaires who host the hugely successful BBC’s Dragon’s Den programme.What resonated with the (often brutally honest) entrepreneurs was iFoods.tv’s confident and professional pitch. West of Ireland native Olivia MacDonnell of ConfidentSpeak worked with the “Dragon” hopefuls and shares her secrets behind successful investor pitches.

IN THE mid-1990s rock was in a perilous state as manufactured groups Take That, The Spice Girls, and Boyzone dominated the charts but a group of Mancunians called Oasis were about to bring guitar-based music back.

US presidential election victor Barack Obama is the ‘real deal’, according to Green Minister Eamon Ryan, who visited Kilkenny this week.

THE BLACK Country in the English West Midlands - so called because of the Industrial Revolution and the outcroppings of the coal scarring the soil black - is concentrated in and around the cities of Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton.

Child psychology expert Dr Tessa Livingstone - who is the executive producer of the BBC television series Child of Our Time - will address the sixth annual childcare conference on Saturday at the Salthill Hotel. It opens at 9.30am and will be officially launched by Mr Barry Andrews, Minister for Children and Youth affairs.

Preparations have been under way over the last few weeks in St Joseph’s Secondary School Castlebar for this years transition year musical production, Lionel Bart’s musical, Oliver. This show has had a recent West End revival, thanks to last years BBC talent show, I’d do anything and the girls at St Jo’s, already familiar with the songs from the TV show and the film, are delighted to be putting on their own Oliver performance

The daughter of screen legend Peter O’Toole has been banned from driving for three years after she admitted last week to drink driving in Connemara.

IN APRIL 2002 there was an attempt to overthrow the president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez, but 48 hours later he was back in power.