Joan Henchy insists that ‘gender is not an issue’ after she was elected as the first female chairperson of New York GAA.

As the all-conquering Dublin machine rolls into Croke Park Sunday, GAA volunteers across the country and beyond will still be busy performing the often thankless tasks that keep our association so vibrant and unique.

In early June, I hopped into my car in Tullycrine in west Clare, made the short journey south west to Killimer before boarding the 1pm Shannon Ferry to Tarbert. Kerry were playing Laois in Tralee so going to Austin Stack Park is as handy for me as a trip to the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.

For sale jointly with Paul Stack of Abbeyfeale-based Sherry Fitzgerald Stack and Tom Dillon of Listowel-based Dillon-Prendiville Auctioneers, a superb 97-acre grass holding at Shanaway near the village of Tarbert, Co Kerry has recently come on the market, and has not been long in causing something of a stir.

North Kerry land will always get plenty of attention from the market place — especially if it consists of good quality grassland.

The threat of bacterial epidemics is something that threatens all countries, island or not.

I’m sure there are some people out there giving me a share of the credit for Cork’s win yesterday. I’ve no doubt that my comments in my column here on Saturday got Cork riled up big time.

A charity has deployed its latest rapid response medical jeep to help save lives in North Kerry and West Limerick.

A windfarm proposed for north Kerry, near the Shannon estuary, has been refused planning permission, on grounds of its potential adverse impact on the environment.

The depleted Garda Traffic Corps has managed to hang on to only around 80 of the 150 extra personnel it was assigned in 2018, the Irish Examiner understands.

An eleventh-hour planning objection to a €1bn liquid natural gas (LNG) project in the Shannon Estuary is now due to come before the High Court for decision on October 4.

A unit of US equity fund Fortress has bought out the €1bn Shannon LNG terminal project located down the shore from the Tarbert ferry in Co Kerry.

Standby pumps are being brought to Listowel Racing Harvest Festival next week amid fears the town will run out of water.

A ban on Sunday funerals has come into force in the diocese of Kerry.

A surfer who had been missing since Sunday has been traced safe and well.

Proposals by the energy minister, Dick Spring, to compel the ESB to buy gas from the Kinsale gasfield at uncommercial rates were described as “hopelessly illogical” by the country’s most senior civil servant.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 1-14 Kilmurry-Ibrickane (Clare) 0-8: The last time Dr Crokes travelled by road and sea from Killarney up to this scenic part of west Clare they got enough of a scare to ensure that they never took their foot off the pedal at Páirc Naoimh Mhuire yesterday.

Esther N McCarthy eschews wifi and takes the family on a weekend break to the rustic charm of Loop Head in Co Clare.

One in five people in Kerry are economically dependent on tourism, according to the most in-depth examination of the €420m-a-year industry in the county, carried out on behalf of the umbrella body, Destination Kerry Tourism Forum. The research also found that the number of overseas visitors to the county exceeded one million for the first time in 2015,

Five of the 53 parishes in the Diocese of Kerry are now without a resident priest and changes announced yesterday by Bishop of Kerry Dr Ray Browne, are to take account of five deaths as well as retirements.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a teenage boy was critically injured in a motorcycle crash in Kerry yesterday.

A motorcyclist in his mid 30s was killed in a single vehicle crash in County Kerry last night.

Nine Kerry towns and villages will soon be without a GP, and towns which have managed to restore doctor services are doing so under sharing arrangements.

Races yesterday saw lots of frills and fashion as well as thrills on the racing front.

Up to 70 local people turned out “to comb” a field in North Kerry where 20 cattle died after ingesting lead in the past week.

Twenty cows and calves have died in north Kerry from suspected lead poisoning.

A ferry service connecting Clare and Kerry has seen numbers surge by almost 20% over the past two years through the promotion of the Wild Atlantic Way.

Shannon Rangers 0-9 Dr Crokes 2-16: It was all so easy for Dr Crokes who had 13 points to spare over last year’s semi-finalists Shannon Rangers in this Kerry SFC first round tie at Tarbert on Saturday evening.

Gardaí in Kerry are appealing to the public for information after an armed robbery by masked men at Tarbert Post Office, a village on the Shannon estuary, north of Listowel.

Interviews with managers of sides playing in provincial club finals tend to follow a pattern.

Often, meetings in provincial junior and intermediate club championship clashes are trips into the unknown.

Papers are to be lodged in the Supreme Court in relation to a Circuit Court ruling in an action by a former senator who was unsuccessful in his attempt to have a local election result overturned.

Councillors in Kerry have voted to defy national guidelines on planning by permitting access to housing alongside a number of busy national roadways.

The new 460 megawatt (MW) clean gas power station built by SSE Airtricity in Co Wexford is set to be fully operational in the coming months, when it will be capable of providing energy for half a million homes.

A man who left a young woman "for dead" after a hit and run incident in Limerick has been jailed for three years.

Splits are emerging in Fianna Fáil in Kerry, with three former party councillors expected to contest the May local elections as independent candidates.

One of Kerry’s most colourful Fianna Fáil figures, Dan Kiely, 69, has resigned from the party.

More than 1,100 people have signed a petition opposing plans to erect wind turbines which would be taller than the Dublin Spire.

PJ Reidy took over the Keel job a year ago and 137 training sessions later the Castleisland native has the Mid Kerry team 60 minutes from an All-Ireland final.

CABINETS jammed with trophies and plaques greet visitors to the school, displaying the talents of the pupils. Just like in any other school across the country, the shelves feature bronze statues of golfers, ribboned medals for basketball, and honours for GAA. There are also Young Enterprise awards and even a framed picture of a student receiving his Meitheal prize from then-President Mary McAleese.

Up to 200 houses in North Kerry are brandishing placards announcing they will be put up for sale if a planned windfarm with 156-metre turbines is given the green light.

A plan for the Shannon Estuary was launched yesterday, identifying key strategic locations to help further advance the development of the waterway for maritime-based industry and tourism.

Protection of dolphins and other wildlife was among the key conditions under which planning permission was recently granted for a combined heat and power plant on the Shannon Estuary.