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.

A 17-year-old whose family has been in the jarvey business for three generations has emerged as the winner of the only horse and carriage hackney licence to be publicly advertised in the town’s recent history.

The 15-year-old Killarney Junior Cert student and her family who have been forced to stay in their family car in recent weeks have been offered accommodation in a guesthouse for four nights.

Thousands of traditional music aficionados are due to visit Killarney for the Munster Fleadh Cheoil which kicked off officially last night.

Thousands of euro have been donated to a vital palliative care service in the name of a popular Kerry fundraiser who lost her life to cancer last month.

A town has been stunned by the tragic death of a teenager described as a very promising GAA player and hugely popular in the community.

A 19-year-old student on trial for conspiring to assault another teenager, who was found stabbed to death, had walked the boy home the previous night in order to protect him, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee heard from a prosecution witness yesterday.

AN 18-year-old student appeared before Judge James O’Connor at Killarney District Court, yesterday, on two conspiracy charges surrounding the unlawful killing of teenager Stephen Lyne in the town last year.

A 17-YEAR-OLD arrested yesterday by gardaí in Killarney, arising from a continuing investigation into the murder of another teenager in the town last June, has been released without charge.

A 19-YEAR-OLD man arrested by gardaí in Killarney arising from an investigation into the murder of another teenager in the town was released without being charged.

A PRIEST yesterday pleaded for a change in people’s hearts to overcome the scourge of violence in Irish society, when he preached at the funeral Mass of a teenage murder victim.

AS gardaí investigate three violent deaths in Kerry, Dublin and Tipperary, a call has been made on the Government to hold an emergency debate on spiralling lawlessness.

SCHOOL principals in Killarney have written to parents asking them to be “vigilant” about the behaviour of their children.

STUDENTS in Killarney emerged from examination halls wearing broad smiles yesterday morning after sitting the Junior Certificate Civic, Social and Political Education paper.

COMPLAINTS were few enough from Leaving Certificate students who sat the second Irish papers in Killarney yesterday.

THE sale of a 130-space car park as a site for decentralised Government offices in Killarney is adding to traffic congestion outside schools in the town, it was claimed yesterday.

THE sale of a 130-space car park as a site for decentralised Government offices, in Killarney, is adding to traffic congestion outside schools in the town, it was claimed yesterday.