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The renowned film actor, and patron of the Galway Huston School of Film, Anjelica Huston, was born in Los Angeles on July 8 1951. The news of her arrival was promptly cabled to the post office of Butiaba, in western Uganda. Two days later a barefoot runner bearing a telegram finally arrived at Murchison Falls, on the Nile, deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo, where The African Queen was being filmed.

A date for the trial of former Craughwell developer Kevin McGeever charged with wasting Garda time and making a false complaint by faking his own kidnapping is to be set tomorrow.

Anjelica Huston’s mother, Ricki Soma, grew up over a popular Broadway Italian restaurant called Tony’s Wife on West Fifty-Second Street in New York. At 14 years of age she was already a beauty, and a ballet dancer. She looked like the Mona Lisa, in fact she was considered so beautiful that a few years later her photograph appeared on the cover of Life magazine.

Mayo native Kevin McGeever, with an address at Ballywinna, Craughwell, Co Galway, appeared before Strokestown District Court in Co Roscommon on Wednesday in relation to charges of wasting Garda time.

It has been reported that Swinford property tycoon Kevin McGeever, who claimed he was held captive, made up the whole story in order to get out of his debts.

The mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of international property tycoon Kevin McGeever, who is originally from Meelick, Swinford, has led to more bizarre revelations, as the 68-year-old is apparently wanted by Interpol in relation to a property deal in Dubai.

A 25-year-old Craughwell man pleaded guilty this week to robbing three people of their cash in a city centre street.

The Tory Party in Britain can count among its leaders Winston Churchill, Harold MacMillan, and Margaret Thatcher, and is now led by the Eton and Oxford educated David Cameron, who hails from Berkshire, a traditional Tory heartland.

In 1861 Robert O’Hara Burke from Craughwell, Co Galway, made history by becoming the first white man to cross Australia. In a major new series, TG4 will re-tell and retrace Burke’s epic journey.

Avon Ireland, which is celebrating 15 years of helping women look and feel great, needs your help to fund-raise for the Arc Breast Cancer Crusade.