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THE HEADFORD region will come alive to the sound of rock, folk, and classical music this weekend when Campbell’s Tavern and the Music Department of the Presentation College, Headford, host a series of shows this May Bank Holiday Weekend.

A north Kilkenny county councillor, Mary Hilda Cavanagh, is furious with the out-dated laws that govern the county VEC committee which led to the compulsory resignation of one female member in Kilkenny this week.

Thankfully I know I am not alone in this one; just ask any second level teacher who teaches lads.

You or a member of your family may have to face exams soon. At McKane's Pharmacy, Ballina, staff would like to share a few tips on how to cope with exam pressure. Some you will have heard before, but if even one of them helps you through the difficult exam period, they will be delighted.

Kilkenny certainly has no shortage of new music thanks to the very successful venture of Ken McGuire and his One Take Sessions which have taken off with gusto in Cleere’s for another season.

A teacher from Louisburgh will be included in the newly published Guinness World Record’s Book of the Decade after he achieved the unthinkable by appearing four times in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Mayo County Council Arts Office has announced that Éilís Ní Dhuibhne will be the Force 12 2009 writer in residence. Éilís will be working with a number of writers groups and schools throughout the county over a two-week period, during the month of May and June.

The great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Oct 27 1914 - Nov 9 1953) had absolutely no interest in school. He attended Swansea Grammar where his father, DJ Thomas, was the much feared English teacher. Both the boys and the staff were afraid of his temper, so much so that when Dylan, frequently bored with school, walked out murmuring that he was gong to write ‘bloody poetry’, if he met the headmaster on his way, the head would only nod, and say; “Don’t get caught, will you?”

Mayo ASTI representative Greta Harrison has called on the parents and teachers of second level pupils to make the education cutbacks an issue in the upcoming local and European elections.

MARTIN TOAL, the popular and much acclaimed English tenor, is possibly Fabio Capello’s secret weapon - because when he sings ‘God Save The Queen’ before an England game, they win without conceding.