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“WATCHING BARACK Obama get to The White House was such a one-off experience. For him to go from such obscurity to the highest political position in the world in such as short space time was an unparalleled journey in American politics.”

IN THE 1970s, the city of Leeds was synonymous with Leeds Utd and its talented but hard as nails side of Billy Bremner, Peter Lorimer, Johnny Giles, and Jack Charlton, and their manager Don Revie.

IT IS 1976. Sean Farrell has been mistakenly linked by the State to IRA activity and Emma Balstead, the daughter of a British military attaché officer, has run away from home.

“THERE ARE admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me’.”

DAN LE Sac Vs Scroobius Pip are creating a huge stir with their take on pop/hip-hop, and will return to Galway to play ‘Stress!! Presents...’ at the Róisín Dubh on Saturday February 7 at 8pm.

Simon Evans @ The Comedy Club

THE GPO will celebrate St Patrick’s week early and in style, DJ Arveene and the brilliant Japanese Popstars being just two of the acts playing the Eglinton Street venue over the next few days.

LLOYD COLE first came to attention in the 1980s with his band The Commotions, with whom he enjoyed hit singles like ‘Brand New Friend’, ‘Lost Weekend’, and ‘Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?’. In the 1990s he disbanded the group and embarked on a successful solo career in America.

SALENA GODDEN is known to music fans as the lead singer with underground ska/jazz band SaltPeter. She is also a slam poet and the Londoner will be the guest performer at North Beach Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Monday at 9pm.

A new tourism initiative, promoting great value deals for holidays in the west of Ireland, reached some one million newspaper readers around Great Britain at the weekend.