Plans for a major road to ease traffic on the main Killarney-Tralee Road, which first went on public display in 2004, will need to be redesigned before it can finally proceed, a meeting has been told.

This image of a sika stag with a black plastic bag wound around its antlers was captured on camera this weekend by Peter O'Toole, a longtime conservation ranger at Killarney National Park.

What seems like a premature withering of leaves on certain trees iscausing concern to some readers. After all, we’re only just movinginto autumn and it’s early to behappening.

A sudden thunderstorm on Tuesday evening in Killarney saw tourists run for cover roads flood, and shops close early in a weather event not seen for fifty years according to locals.

Warning signs about toxic algal scum have been erected on the shoreline of a lake in recent weeks after the death of a dog from suspected poisoning in the Deenagh River

A Kerry man died last week after kitesurfing in Portugal, it has merged.

Additional car and bus parking to cater for the large numbers of visitors to Muckross House, a protected area one of the southwest’s most popular tourist attractions in the 10,000-hectare Killarney National Park has been given the go-ahead.

The wall of dense rhododendron on the spine of Torc Mountain in the Killarney National Park acted as a firebreak in the early hours of Saturday morning and prevented a major fire reaching the oak, beech and pine woodlands, it has emerged.

Red Lodge is in a prime setting, looking west towards Dunmore, over the main access road to Inchydoney’s beaches.

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.

Objections have been raised to halt the expansion of facilities at a one of Kerry’s most popular tourist attractions.

Two súgán chairs, a súgán egg basket, and other straw-made items are on their way to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall after a visit to Muckross traditional farms in Killarney last week.

From one kingdom to another, the Prince of Wales hailed his visit to Kerry yesterday as “remarkable”, after fulfilling a long-time ambition to see what is considered to be Ireland’s most beautiful county.

Gráinne McGuinness offers consumer advice on planning holidays.

Originally built as a private residence in 1870, the newly renovated Cahernane House revels in its Victorian grandeur.

Jackie Lavin's High Court action against her partner Bill Cullen and one of his companies over an alleged failure to complete a €1m deal for the sale of Killegy House in Co Kerry to the businesswoman has been resolved.

Jackie Lavin's High Court action against her partner Bill Cullen and one of his companies over an alleged failure to complete a €1m deal for the sale of Killegy House in Co Kerry to her has been adjourned to facilitate settlement talks.

“Locals only” does not always apply in Kerry – the county with one of the most stringent planning laws of any county, the councillor Maura Healy-Rae says.

Jackie Lavin's High Court action against her partner Bill Cullen and one of his companies, over an alleged failure to complete a €1m deal for the sale of Killegy House in Co Kerry to the businesswoman, will be heard in October.

A German motorcyclist, on a tour of the South-West, died while travelling at a moderate speed on the main Ring of Kerry road after his bike went out of control, glanced off a rock in the margin which drove the machine further out of control and he was thrown from it.

Killarney man Tom Cooper cast veterans of the War of Independence in Ireland’s first feature film. Its restoration means it can be screened again, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Two men have appeared before a special sitting of Killarney District Court charged in connection with a robbery on Waterville Post Office on Wednesday.

Thousands of people yesterday showed their veneration in St Mary’s Cathedral in Killarney, Co Kerry, for the relics of St Anthony of Padua, the 13th century saint revered as the finder of lost things.

THE invasion of one of the Lakes of Killarney — Lough Lein — by a noxious algae is now as much a harbinger of summer as the far more welcome return of swallows to the Muckross shore. 

Grant aid for households to install security alarm systems is being sought in Co Kerry, to combat burglaries.

Drawn by the sunshine, huge crowds descended on Killarney for its St Patrick’s Day parade where the green of the traffic lights had been turned into shamrocks and the buildings had been turned green overnight.

LIKELY to be chased as a trophy Killarney purchase, as either a hotel with further potential, or as an extraordinary private residence once more, is the 38-bedroomed Victorian timepiece Cahernane House Hotel, on the Muckross Road in Killarney.

Kerry County Council is seeking a reassessment of key sections of the national road network in the county after some of its main roads were closed due to flooding in December, a meeting in Tralee has heard.

Storm Frank will be in full flow today and tomorrow as forecasters warn that the rest of the week will be a washout with storms, severe flooding and high winds expected.

A sheep farmer has been sent forward for trial to the Circuit Criminal Court, on two charges relating to having a Winchester rifle with a telescopic sight and aiming it at two gardaí during a siege at his Kerry farm.

A 31-year-old man with 50 previous convictions has been jailed for six months for the theft of a car fob, at Killarney District Court.

Gardaí are appealing for information following a highly organised and daring raid on a power equipment shop in the centre of a mid-Kerry village in the early hours of Sunday.

Gardaí are continuing their investigations after a raging fire threatened homes as well as the forests of Killarney National Park in the early hours of yesterday.

ILLEGALLY set hill fires are a regular and disheartening part of our summers and show that a considerable number of people still have a deep disregard for our shared environment and the laws enacted to protect it.