An elderly woman who was injured after a crash in County Kerry over a week ago has died.

An elderly man has died and a number of people have been injured on a road off the N22 near Killarney in an early morning crash, in the second road fatality in just days in Co Kerry.

It happened at around 6.45 this morning at Finnegan's Cross in Kilcummin.

The Diocese of Kerry has confirmed that an ongoing shortage of priests has meant weekend Masses are to be cut and there will be changes to all five parishes in the Killarney area.

Anne Lucey Parishioners in Kilcummin are taking the fight to keep their parish priest to Rome as their row with the Bishop of Kerry worsens.

THEY met on a night out in Killarney and Anne (known to all by her nickname Peig) O’Sullivan and Jason Mangan got engaged in Malaga.

A petition of 1,200 signatures is to be handed into the Bishop of Kerry in the coming days as a standoff escalates between him and parishioners of Kilcummin, Co Kerry, over the decision to remove the parish priest.

On a fast and furious opening 96km stage, Alex Luhrs (Ribble Pro Cycling) took the win from a breakaway trio ahead of his teammate Dan Bigham on day one of the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan. Ben Healy (Team Ireland) just hung on to the flying English duo to take third.

A rallying year which began with uncertainty ends in style tomorrow with a capacity entry list for the Rentokil-Initial Killarney Historic Rally.

More than 20,000 homes and businesses were left without power across Kerry yesterday as Storm Ophelia wreaked havoc from the early hours.

A Limerick toddler is alive thanks to the quick thinking of two Garda detectives who kept her breathing during a medical emergency in Limerick city centre.

Tom Mazzone of the Isle of Man team will wear the first yellow jersey of this year’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan after claiming a brilliant opening stage win last night in Killorglin.

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

The Irish Wildlife Trust has logged almost a dozen large wildfires since Tuesday, raging from the Blackstairs Mountains to the Beara Peninsula and from the Knockmealdowns to Killarney National Park, and says most occurred in special areas of conservation.

A man became “so distracted” when a woman he took for a spin put her hand on his knee that he hit a bollard, overturned, and wrote off his car at a roundabout.

Mike O’Shea, adventurer and owner of Work at Height, which looked after the logistics of getting cast, crew and equipment onto Skellig Michael, said: “We knew what they wanted us to know even though we were heavily involved but it’s a very secretive industry.

Kerry Rose Julett Culloty brushed tears from her cheeks yesterday as she told how she had been diagnosed with cancer just over a year ago.

Bramble Cottage at Kilcummin near Killarney combines the prettiness and charm of an old world property with the space and facilities of a modern bungalow.

ONE of the most uplifting aspects of travelling around Ireland now is seeing how the appearance of villages has improved so much in recent years.

Conflicting estimates of damage caused by a spate of gorse fires in Killarney National Park have been given by statutory bodies.

Debris found at the scene of a hit and run in which a cyclist died, came from a vehicle driven by a 22-year-old man on trial in connection with the incident.

A 37-year-old man who suffered headaches and was left with a fear of hedge strimmers after being injured on a Community Employment work placement scheme has been awarded €25,000 in an action against the South Kerry Development Partnership (SKDP).

Killarney €500,000-plus

A planning application has been submitted for a new privately-developed graveyard in a top tourist area where spaces in existing public cemeteries are fast running out.

A local authority has been urged “to stand tough and firm” in relation to getting work completed on unfinished housing estates.

The need for a long-awaited sewerage scheme to help protect the lakes of Killarney from pollution has been highlighted.

Fears are again being voiced about pollutants entering Lough Lein, the biggest of the three, world-famous Lakes of Killarney.

Planners are adamant no more land will be zoned for housing in Tralee and Killarney.

Almost 1,000 acres currently designated for housing in Kerry’s two biggest towns are to be dezoned because a projected demand for homes won’t exist in the coming years.

Kerry Group Rás Mumhan race director Tadhg Moriarty has warned riders with designs on making an impact on this year’s event to be “prepared for one of the hardest stages in the history of the race.”

Further delays in carrying out a long-awaited extension to Killarney’s sewerage network could exacerbate pollution problems in Kerry’s world-famous lakes.

Almost 2,000 acres earmarked for housing in Kerry are to be dezoned under a new plan for the Tralee-Killarney hub.

On a grey, showery day, people from all walks of life came from across the country to the wake at Ard a’ Bhothair, about 2km from Ventry, in the Dingle Peninsula.

Over 100 crews will tackle tomorrow’s Gleneagle Hotel Killarney Historic Rally that doubles as the opening round of the 2013 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship and final round of this season’s Southern 4 Historic Rally Championship.

Progress has been welcomed in the planning of a long-awaited sewerage scheme, listed as a priority in the protection of one of the main picture-postcard Killarney lakes.

DEVELOPMENT land with agricultural potential scored well at auction last week, when 11.5 acres near Kilcummin village made just under €18,700 per acre at auction.

BEING in arrears on your mortgage has become one of the newer social stigmas in Ireland.

PAUL GRIFFIN has come mightily close to landing the overall title at Rás Mumhan on several occasions but the teak-tough Tralee native reckons this year might well be his last chance at the yellow jersey.

THERE’S a glimmer of hope that land for a public burial ground may, at last, be available in Killarney.

RATHER than having fines imposed on them, offenders caught dumping illegally should be made clean up the mess they create.

A MAN with a gambling addiction who got access to the chequebook of a neighbouring farmer withdrew more than €13,000.

COUNTY Kerry will once again host the first major stage race of the Irish Cycle racing calendar in 2011 when the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan takes place over the Easter Weekend from Good Friday, April 22 to Easter Monday April 25.

THE sole survivor of last week’s horrific car crash, which claimed the lives of four teenagers, in Co Kerry, has been transferred to Cork University Hospital.

A HORRIFIC car crash in which four young people died in Kerry, spread “darkness over the whole land”, a priest at a funeral Mass for two of the victims said on Saturday.