When the shop in the townland of Bóthar Buí, opposite Carraig Church in west Kerry, closes its doors this evening, there will only be one retail outlet left between Slea Head and the foot of Mount Brandon.

Tralee has been named as one of more than 20 towns and cities that can apply for recognition as a Gaeltacht service town, under the Gaeltacht Act, 2012.

The waiting game is over for 16 of this year’s Rose of Tralee contestants last night, who found out they had made it through to the live TV stage of the competition on Monday and Tuesday nights.

A significant number of council housing applicants, in remote areas such as the Gaeltacht in west Kerry, have been on a waiting list for nine years or more.

He was continuing this journey down the coast of Spain and Portugal when he died, writes Victoria White.

Pet O’Connell goes hill walking in Dingle, and brushes up on her Irish language skills while she’s there.

Council officials have rejected a call to place a “derelict site” notice on the only remaining building associated with the 1970-released epic romantic drama Ryan’s Daughter.

Solicitors should be allowed to perform civil wedding ceremonies when marriage is opened to gay couples, a lawyer has urged.

It became known as the little school in the “next parish to America” and there was outrage when a Fianna Fáil government decided to close it 44 years ago.

Renowned American actress Laura Dern is the latest movie personality to become enraptured by the rugged grandeur of the Dingle Peninsula and the earthy charm of its people.

In 1948, newspapers dubbed Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin the ‘loneliest boy in the world’: he was the sole child on the Blaskets, and now is the only surviving evacuee of 1953-54, says Áilín Quinlan.

An exhibition of rare photographs is offering a glimpse of life on the Blasket Islands and other parts of the west coast in the late 19th century.

An “alarming” drop in the number of Irish speakers in a Kerry Gaeltacht parish which produced some of the best known writers in Irish is causing concern.

KNOW Your Neighbour Weekend was a great success, with more than 200 opportunities organised for neighbours to get to know each other.

THE auction offering of 65 discounted Irish properties was as damp a squib as the day outside was a washout.

There was a poor uptake at Munster's first ever discounted property auction.

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to a Limerick man who completed a solo around-the-world voyage when he was in his 70s.

ONE of the last surviving natives of the Great Blasket Island, Micheál O Cearna, 89, was last evening conferred with an honorary doctorate of literature.

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SIX months ago, the people of Dingle, in association with Kerry Co Council, held a plebiscite in which 93% of the townspeople voted to reinstate their traditional bilingual names, Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis.

WALKERS in South West Kerry will be familiar with the Clasach, the road that links the seaside village of Ventry to Dun Chaoin, and a route that offers a good aerobic workout.

WHILE the focus has been on the introduction of a team time trial and a gruelling final stage to replace the traditional circuit finish, this year’s FBD Insurance Rás will also include some old, familiar obstacles as the eight-day showpiece returns to Kerry.

FIRST a public row with her nanny, now singer Dolores O’Riordan’s is moving lock, stock and barrel to Dublin to facilitate her rock star lifestyle.

Place names in English will no longer be recognised in Irish law as the Government has taken its first steps to legally recognise the original Irish versions, it emerged today.

BODY-boarding on Cummeenole beach, supping at Krugers and watching the sun descend behind the Fear Marbh are all options available with a property on the market at Ceathrú, Dun Chaoín on the Dingle Peninsula.

DAMIAN BYRNE believes that the Good Friday Agreement has been a failure because it was a ‘compromise’ and failed to resolve ‘once and for all the crucial issues of sovereignty and democracy that went to the heart of the conflict’ (The Irish Examiner, August 1).