More than 15,000 Irish schoolchildren marched out of classrooms yesterday to join a global mass movement of climate change demonstrations.

Traffic infrastructure in Killarney has fallen far behind the “industry-led” tourism business and chronic congestion is now threatening the tourism potential of the entire south-west region, a delegation from the town’s business and hotel organisations has told a council meeting.

CLAPS and cheers heralded their arrival and while it wasn’t all a song and dance, students plumbed, painted and plastered as they saw a shell transform into a first-ever home for three generations of a family that had lived in a dark shack.

THE same way you know it’s a general election night when Brian Farrell wears a carnation in his lapel, so too the rich sound of the Artane Band heralds a landmark day in Croke Park for many of us.

Gardaí have named the 18-year-old female passenger killed in a road accident in Killarney as Niamh O’Shea, from Boulia, in Firies, Killarney, Co Kerry.

WATERFORD hurling supporters have snapped up more than two-thirds of the tickets available online from the GAA’s official website for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Clare.