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BARACK OBAMA was born on August 4 1961 in Honolulu to a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya. His parents met at the University of Hawaii, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.

An Irish American fund has generously donated monies to help develop learning facilities at Mayo schools.

THE CURRENT German international football squad boasts 11 players whose parents or grandparents were born outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Podolski, Klose and Trochowski (Poland), Boateng (Ghana), Cacau (Brazil), Ozil (Turkey) and Khedira (Tunisia).

Due to exceptional demand, a limited number of extra tickets are being released this Friday, July 2, for the Christy Moore concert at The Hub at Cillin Hill on Friday July 9 next.

IN THE summer of 1978 a young man from Drogheda named Niall O’Dowd had just graduated from UCD with a BA degree but in unemployment-ravaged Ireland he felt his prospects lay elsewhere.

O, hurry, where by water, among the trees,

Paulstown boxer Darren O’Neill along with Ken Egan and Tyrone McCullagh qualified for the European semi-finals and will now have the chance to box tonight (Friday) for gold or silver following their sensational wins at the Ice Palace in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon.

ANDRE DE Moller may be a practising barrister, but meeting Ray Charles during his teens led him to his true calling in life - the blues.

A Castlebar businessman is seeking to raise funds in aid of Temple Street Children's Hospital by riding a motorbike through the famous coast-to-coast Route 66 in America.

ACOUSTIC BLUES singer-songwriter Eric Bibb was born in New York in 1951 and grew up surrounded by the Greenwich Village folk music and literary scene which included Bob Dylan, Dave Von Ronk, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Judy Collins, and Joan Baez.