A woman dressed as celery was ejected from a polling station in Kilgarvan as she attempted to accompany the TD Danny Healy Rae in to vote in his home village.

There are 624 approved applicants currently on the county council housing list in the area which includes most of the Ring of Kerry. Half are single persons.

TDs and Senators have claimed over €37,000 buying top of the range phones over the past two years.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said it is not a matter for him to decide whether it is appropriate for someone with a recent assault conviction to sit on a county’s most senior policing committee.

The plant-hire company owned by independent Kerry TD, Danny Healy Rae last year recorded an 85% increase in post tax profits to €444,227.

Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae is facing further delay over his plans to convert a former pub in Tralee into apartments in the latest chapter in a long-running planning row with some local residents in the north Kerry town.

Gardaí are not treating the fire as suspicious.

Mary Williams from Tallaght joined other bingo players outside Leinster House to protest against proposed gambling legislation.

Ms Doherty said the clarity on Mr Healy Rae's movements is needed after it emerged the Kerry TD was a five-hour drive away in Sneem on the same day as he was signed into the Dáil for a key EU Brexit debate.

Two sons of Independent Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae have gone on trial charged, along with a third man, of assaulting a man in Kenmare two years ago.

Postmasters are concerned about the Government plan to tender the contract for the collection of TV Licence fees.

Michael Healy Rae hit out at anonymous commenters online targetting former taoiseach Brian Cowen, who remains in a very serious condition in hospital.

A date has been set for the late night assault case involving the newly elected Kerry County Councillor Jackie Healy-Rae, who is alleged to have assaulted a 30-year-old English visitor to Kenmare, causing harm, in December 2017.

Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae has heaped praise on John Delaney, saying the only thing the former FAI CEO is guilty of is "trying to help an association in the best way you saw fit at that time".

Jackie Healy Rae, the son of Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae, has been charged with assaulting a 30-year-old English visitor on a Christmas break in Kenmare.

Rural drivers should be given new licences which allow them to pick up passengers for a set price within 15km of their homes in a bid to clamp down on ongoing drink driving concerns.

Michael Healy Rae made a typically colourful contribution to a Dáil debate last Wednesday, writes Michael Clifford.

“It is a sad day for rural Ireland,” boomed a defiant Danny Healy Rae.

"I couldn’t have made it any more easier for them unless I put a big sign up on it for them saying, ‘please steal me today’"

Opposition TDs have complained they are being treated “like bold school children outside the principal’s office” in having to queue to get speaking rights in the Dáil.

A pint and a half of beer “never made anyone drunk” the Dáil heard this evening during a debate on new road traffic laws.

That Ross’s proposed change (re drink driving) is not embraced by the whole body politic is an acute embarrassment to any country which describes itself as civilised, writes Michael Clifford

It was Irish style parish-pump politics that brought Donald Trump to Presidential office but Irish writer Paddy Duffy reflects on whether, unlike the Healy Rae's, The Donald's rhetoric on the campaign trail was based on a real sense of civic duty to the people who voted for him. 

The hole in the ozone layer was caused by nuclear testing and “not by cans of hairspray or whatever”, claims Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae.

There are calls for more community based Gardaí in rural areas.

Danny Healy Rae is the first politician to publicly challenge the hysteria surrounding climate change.

Fr Paul Connell’s address can be interpreted as offensive, writes Michael Clifford

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s negotiating teams will meet today to finalise what is expected to be a three-year government formation deal before a likely re-election of Enda Kenny as Taoiseach next week.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are to meet early next week to discuss the possibility of a viable minority government, according to the Irish Examiner's Fiachra O Cionnaith.

Enda Kenny has ignored a request for a roundtable meeting on forming a minority government and instead issued fresh invitations to talks, insisting a partnership coalition is the only option.

Deeply frustrated Independent TDs will decide this morning whether to vote against Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin’s bids to become taoiseach rather than abstain as previously expected.

Department of Health officials have told Independents attending a Fianna Fáil negotiations briefing a €300m health service overspend risks taking up the majority of the fiscal space available to the country this year.

Fianna Fáil will hold last-minute round table talks with 15 Independents on Monday and Tuesday amid growing concern next Wednesday’s second crunch taoiseach nomination vote will end in another stalemate.

There ain’t no show like a Healy Rae show and this is proof of it.

I have, on occasion, pulled the leg of an American friend asking “How on Earth could you elect George W Bush — twice?”

Make no mistake — despite having 15 candidates to choose from due to the merger of two former Kerry constituencies into one, three of the five seats on offer in this sprawling area are already effectively decided.

Supertrawlers have the place cleaned out, says fisherman

A councillor in Kerry is calling for a deer crossing instead of a zebra crossing for the village of Kilgarvan.