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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.

The queen had her annus horribilis, Himself had a weekus horribilis. We all did. His kidney stones were giving him jip. When you receive a call from your beloved’s colleague to say he has taken poorly and been rushed into hospital by bluelight taxi, (but don’t panic)... it’s not good. The mind goes into overdrive and we all know the mind’s a powerful thing. Flat to the mat down the M40 to find the hospital. Phone goes on the blink leaving me incommunicado. Then the SatNav gives me the two fingers and decides to pack it in, just to add to the mix. I cannot find the hospital and feel like the Connemara man...which way in here is owit! I don’t know who is collecting the kids. It’s very hard to cry and drive at the same time. The words of my hero Samuel Beckett spring to mind, ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ So, no matter, A&E was found.

JAMES LAVELLE, the man behind UNKLE, will be DJing upstairs at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, tomorrow from 10pm.

Celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, the award winning Silken Thomas Players return to the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone on Saturday June 26 in celebration of being crowned the RTE All Ireland Drama Festival champions with their stunning production of The History Boys by Alan Bennett.

ACCOMPLISHED MUSICIAN and band leader Tom Cussen grew up in the Broadford/Newcastle west area of Co Limerick – known locally as ‘the gateway to the south west of Ireland’ – in the early 1960s.

Galway pop-punk power trio Mugger Dave have just released their debut album What’s She doing Here? and will play The Stables, Mullingar on Friday June 4.

DRUID THEATRE will celebrate its coral anniversary - the 35th anniversary of its founding in Galway city in 1975 - with a major performance featuring excerpts from the great Irish plays, performed by many of this country’s finest actors and actresses.

GALWAY POP-punk power trio Mugger Dave have just released their debut album What’s She doing Here? and it will be officially launched with a gig upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street on Friday April 16 at 8.30pm.

IN THE isolation of the English Lake District, a group of young men, fascinated by French art and poetry, started to make music without any regard for the prevailing trends in London or Manchester. Through being as uninhibited as their French heroes they have created a unique sound. They are Wild Beasts.

Two Jes pupils have won places in an international debating competition which will be held at Oxford.