After Antrim did Offaly a favour by beating Kerry in Tralee, the Faithful County looked after their end of the bargain by cutting through Wicklow with ease in the second half of their clash at Tullamore.

If ever there was an illustration of the power of the Healy-Raes in Kerry, it wasn’t just the convincing — and some might say inevitable — vote they received.

Either the people of Wexford town love Micheál Martin or they love the cameras - either way the Fianna Fáil leader got a glowing reception in the Labour stronghold this afternoon.

The mayor of Kerry has condemned a number of racist stickers that appear to be aimed at the Killarney convention centre where thousands of new Irish are conferred with citizenship each year.

So that’s nearly Monday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A dispute over an alleged right of way between the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) and apartment owners adjoining the college's property at St Stephen's Green, Dublin has been admitted to the fast track Commercial Court list.

Greg Byrne said that his brother has until Friday to sign documentation that would give him a passport to leave the country, but ban him from entering the US for five years.

The solicitor for Tansanqa Radise told a judge that his client could not get a bed at the HSE's Carraig Mór centre in Cork because he had an address in Dublin.

The developer of the long-delayed Event Centre in Cork has submitted a redesign of the project to the local authority in a bid to allay the concerns of City Council planners.

Wimbledon tennis singles champions will win £2.35m (€2.72m) this year, which is an increase of £100,000 (€115,000) on the event in 2018.

A High Court judge has warned persons involved in litigation of the consequences of taking bad advice from those who are not qualified in the law.

A group of women in dispute with the Department of Justice over the dates they worked in Dublin’s High Park Magdalene laundry has written directly to Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan asking him to intervene.

A teenager has been arrested in the Shanagarry area of East Cork in relation to the seizure of 1.5kg of herbal cannabis.

Aretha Franklin has died at her home in Detroit, according to her publicist.

Children continue to be admitted to adult mental health units because of a shortage of beds in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

A RENT roll of €72,000 a year from six tenants, plus 22 vacant business/industrial units stretching to almost 100,000 sq ft of buildings on over five town acres, is on offer for the all-in sum of €750,000.

Johann van Graan has backed Munster to adapt well to yet another change in the province’s management set-up following confirming that Aled Walters is set to leave his post as Head of Athletic Performance.

Nearly 900 pints of homemade alcohol was confiscated from prisoners in Irish jails last year, new figures have revealed, writes Darragh McDonagh.

Joey Alexander is just 14, but he’s already being hailed as one of the brightest new stars in jazz, writes Alan O’Riordan

There are 63,400 practising Muslims living in Ireland and approximately 50 mosques and prayer centres within the State, with five Muslim clergymen or qualified imams.

One of the country’s busiest mosques has, for the past two months, had security guards in place and is to receive additional policing over the holy month of Ramadan, which begins today.

The lack of a children’s detention centre outside of Dublin is to be raised in the European Court of Human Rights by Cork County Council.

Up to €150,000 worth of cannabis has been seized at Portlaoise Mail Centre today.

A 15-year-old whacked another teenager across the face with a stick, breaking his jaw during a fracas at the skate park in Cork, and yesterday, he was sentenced to six months detention.

By now the first paycheck of the new year should be in but there are no scary prices below for the simple reason that I am focusing on Southern and Central Portugal this week, arguably two of the best value wine regions in the world.

One of Ireland's most successful property developers, Owen O'Callaghan, has died, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

More than three-quarters of a million extra bus journeys were made by people in Cork in 2016 compared to the previous year.

A police chief investigating an alleged shoot-to-kill policy in the North confided in a diplomat he was not concerned about a cover-up but “murder, six murders”, declassified files show.

All 15 of Tipperary’s All- Ireland winning side have been nominated for All-Stars, the first time in over 20 years an entire hurling team have been honoured.

Good news for the sad and lonely polar bear trapped in a shopping centre in southern China.

Given the high number of unplanned pregnancies, should certain foods be fortified with folic acid to protect against neural tube defects, asks Andrea Mara.

Campaigners opposed to redevelopment of the Moore St battlefield site in Dublin have been accused of harassing workers and illegally entering the grounds.

WITH a pick-up in fortunes at the northern end of Cork City’s retail thoroughfare, Patrick Street, a new sales push and a new agent are behind the vacant corner property at No 125 Patrick Street/Lavitts Quay, by St Patrick’s Bridge.

St. Peter’s College (Wexford) 1-16 Castlecomer CS (Kilkenny) 0-6: Leinster Post Primary Hurling: St. Peter’s College eased to a 13 points win over Castlecomer Community School in this one-sided Leinster Post Primary SAHC quarter-final at the Netwatch Carlow Centre of Excellence on Saturday.

The green light has been given for the country’s first fully adapted sports centre which will cater for people with, and without, physical and intellectual disabilities at the same time.

As Christmas looms, all of us will have to think about ideas and ambitions for 2015. Cities, including Cork, should do the same.

Protests have erupted across New York and in US cities from Georgia to California after a white police officer was cleared over the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.

Favourable interest rate changes on outstanding debt helped boost profits at Dublin’s Convention Centre by nearly 340% last year.

"It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.

The Menu is readying himself for the Taste of West Cork Cocktail Party (August 21) in the glorious Glebe Gardens, in Baltimore, West Cork, considering it an early taster for the wonderful Taste of West Cork Food Festival. 

Elderly artist and anti-war activist, Margaretta D'Arcy, who was released early from prison this morning after serving part of a second prison sentence over her opposition to the US military use of Shannon Airport, has described conditions inside Limerick prison as "inhumane".

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