A 25-year-old man could have been driving at a speed of 120km/h through the busy streets of Killarney, Co Kerry, early on Saturday, a court has been told.

Up to 1,000 people marched in Killarney on Saturday afternoon, with placards and notices demanding not just the scrapping of water charges but also an end to the bank bailout.

Cork Pride takes to the streets, and honours its heroes, in what should be among one of the great bank holiday spectacles of the weekend.

Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral Mass of Mairead Moran at St Eoghan's Church in Kilmoganny, Co Kilkenny today.

A psychiatric assessment has been ordered on a 27-year-old man accused of murdering a shop manager last Thursday.

A 27-year-old man was being questioned last night by gardaí investigating the murder of a woman who was attacked and stabbed while working in a shop in Kilkenny’s city centre.

A man is still being held by gardaí investigating the fatal stabbing of a woman in Kilkenny city last night.

The Kingdom will formally celebrate St Patrick’s Day from dawn to dusk and then, informally, deep into the late hours with many towns and villages hosting parades and other events to make the occasion.

UPWARDS of €25,000 worth of life-saving equipment will be placed in public locations around Killarney in the coming weeks.

A WOMAN spoke yesterday about how her father’s sudden death inspired her to raise enough money to install life-saving defibrillators on the streets of her town.

THOUSANDS of euro have been taken in a scam on an ATM machine in the heart of Killarney.

Criminals no longer need to pick our pockets to rob us — they’re doing it electronically. Consumer correspondent Paul Kelly reports.

LISTOWEL is to have a weekly farmers’ market for a six-month trial period.

A ROW has flared up between street traders and the local council in tourism town Killarney.

LOCAL people and visitors to tourist haven Killarney are being regularly pestered by ticket sellers, beggars and street vendors of goods such as flowers, hats and Chinese lamps, it was claimed yesterday.