SO YOU want change? But do you really? The word change is in vogue in the wake of the general election.

Meanwhile the Healy-Raes now see a gap and may well go for the chance of a third seat, it is strongly rumoured.

A Co Kerry golf club has secured planning permission for an extension of its clubhouse, despite opposition from local publicans.

I remember as a kid in the 1970s going to Ballyheigue and Ballybunion, and being amazed at meeting my cousins there.

A major planning row has erupted in a North Kerry village between several pub owners and a golf course over plans for an extension to its clubhouse.

“I am so excited I can barely hold my phone”

A recall of a blood pressure and heart medicine used by over 60,0000 Irish patients has “caused consternation”, with pharmacists inundated with patient requests for alternatives at a time when the supply of unaffected medicines is constrained.

Beach-friendly facilities for wheelchair users are being considered by Cork County Council.

For the third year in a row, Ballylickey’s Daniel Cronin and Cavan’s Stephen McCann face one another at the six-stage Banna Beach Resort Kerry Winter Rally.

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

Update - 3.30pm: Tributes have been paid to an Irishman who died in a swimming accident in the Netherlands.

A county which tops the Blue Flag list is making access to some of its beaches easier, this summer, for people with mobility issues.

Large quantities of seaweed are marring the popular Ballyheigue blue flag beach in north Kerry.

Three popular beaches have been forced to lower their coveted Blue Flag.

Funeral masses on Sundays will not be held in the Kerry diocese from September 1, due to a shortage of priests.

The greyhound industry has come under fire in recent times. Most recently, the industry came under fire after RTE’s Prime Time Investigates aired a programme about the doping of greyhounds.

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.

The seats said ‘Mr and Mr’ and were indicated on Cupid’s arrows when the fashion designer, Don O’Neill, married fiancé Pascal Guellermie in front of Ballyheigue Castle, Co Kerry, on the edge of the Atlantic this weekend.

A refreshing insight into how schoolchildren view the internet, in a Trend Micro-backed competition, produced winners from Kerry to Kildare and Cork to Cavan.

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

A flavour of what was in the Cork Examiner this week 100 years ago

Drawn by the sunshine, huge crowds descended on Killarney for its St Patrick’s Day parade where the green of the traffic lights had been turned into shamrocks and the buildings had been turned green overnight.

The eldest daughter of Danny Healy-Rae has been co-opted onto Kerry County Council in a seat vacated by her father on his election to Dáil Éireann.

Michael and Danny Healy-Rae’s resounding electoral success (30,000-plus votes) proves that all politics is local and dismissing them is to denigrate the people of Kerry, despite that county’s great diversity, writes Clodagh Finn

With minutes to spare before the 12pm deadline, the Independent councillor for the Killarney area, Danny Healy-Rae, surprised everyone and handed in his nomination papers to run in the 2016 general election.

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.

Kerry County Council is seeking a reassessment of key sections of the national road network in the county after some of its main roads were closed due to flooding in December, a meeting in Tralee has heard.

She was a woman of many names. Also known as ‘Mary O’Connor’, ‘Mary the Shop’, and ‘Mary the Pensioner’, it was the title of ‘Mary John B’ that charmed her the most.

Animal rights groups have expressed outrage after road markings were painted over a dead cat.

A cancer victim who spoke out three weeks ago against health service cuts has died.

A call for on-the-spot fines for people who illegally camp overnight in beach car parks in tourist areas of the South-West was made yesterday.

A week ago, University College Cork reminded us how much creative talent exists within this country when it awarded doctorates to notables from the design and art world.

A lavish fund-raising effort from Kerry GAA chiefs in New York, Chicago and Boston has helped put a €1 million dent in the cost of the Kingdom’s proposed Centre of Excellence at Currans, near Farranfore.

Many grooms begrudgingly sign up to the church’s customary pre-marriage course — but it pales in comparison to the marathon series of rituals endured by one Kerryman to gain the hand his Kenyan bride.

Fashion designer Don O’Neill; Cork-based Irish furniture designer Joseph Walsh; and art historian and author Nicholas Fox Weber were conferred with honorary doctorates at a ceremony in the Aula Maxima at UCC yesterday.

A fashion designer whose gowns have been worn by Oprah Winfrey is to be honoured at University College Cork later this week, along with an accomplished furniture maker and a cultural historian.

Tens of thousands of garden enthusiasts will be heading to the Mallow Home and Garden Show next weekend, from June 5 to 7, at Cork Racecourse, Mallow. 

Beaches and marinas across the country are bathing in the warm waters of European approval — 86 of them have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag status.

Students have given nature a hand in helping to restore a top beach damaged by winter storms early last year.

A row over the removal of thousands of tonnes of sand from one of the south-west’s most popular beaches has led to calls for a prohibition on its removal from the area.

More rural and deprived urban areas will be left without doctors in the coming years because Government cutbacks are making GP practices unviable, the Irish Medical Organisation has warned.

BALLYHEIGUE in Co Kerry is one of the most scenically beautiful parts of Ireland. 

A cyclist who was badly hurt and feared he would be trampled after two horses bolted from a field during a charity cycle has received over €50,000 in damages.

The Keeping Up With The Karashain star wore a stunning black waist-cinching Don O’Neill dress from his THEIA collection.