It took a penalty shootout to separate Austin Stacks and Rathmore at a cold Rathbeg on Sunday with Kieran Donaghy scoring the decisive penalty in the first shootout to decide a Kerry club game.

A further two weeks are being set aside for the planning hearings into the controversial South Kerry Greenway - mainly to allow the process to hear from farmers objecting to the route selection and to the Compulsory Purchase mechanism.

The barrister representing 25 landowners opposed to the compulsory purchase of their lands for a greenway in south Kerry has told the An Bord Pleanála hearing the board will be acting contrary to a 2014 European Directive and to Irish law if it does not grant an adjournment.

This eagerly anticipated affair didn’t disappoint as East Kerry overcame a strong second-half comeback by Austin Stacks to run out six-point winners and dump the Tralee club out of the championship.

Nine multinationals employing 5,000 people in a Cork town say they are “deeply frustrated” that the concerns of the local community were “ignored” by planners designing a new motorway.

Six people were left with neck and back injuries when they claimed to have been shaken in what was described as “a little bump” in a carpark incident.

A judge has ruled that handwriting experts were wrong in concluding that the signature on the will of a bachelor farmer from Limerick was a forgery.

A judge has ruled that handwriting experts were wrong in concluding that the signature on the will of a bachelor farmer from Limerick was a forgery, writes Jimmy Woulfe.

An expert in document examination who served as a handwriting forensic investigator at Garda HQ for over 25 years, told Limerick Circuit Court yesterday the signature on the will of a bachelor farmer was a forgery. His evidence backed that of two other experts.

In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Irish courts, a Lithuanian man is set to commence a compensation case against the State, claiming he was accidentally shot during a garda operation.

Ranked 10th on Forbes magazine’s 2016 list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies”, biotechnology company BioMarin will continue to grow its workforce in Ireland over the coming years.

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Former Waterford manager Michael Ryan has urged Derek McGrath to throw the shackles off and hit Kilkenny hard from the start in Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final.

South Kerry 2-10 Austin Stacks 0-8: The sense of anticipation surrounding a first return of Kerry SFC fare to Connolly Park on Tralee’s Rock Street was punctured by a ruthless display from county champions South Kerry in Saturday’s 2nd round replay at the home of Austin Stacks.

A local authority has agreed to quash planning approval for a bathing changing area at the home of a neighbour of film-maker Neil Jordan, the High Court has heard.

Ranked 10th on Forbes magazine’s 2015 list of the world’s most innovative companies, biotechnology company BioMarin is set to grow its workforce in Ireland over the coming years.

Cities and even small market towns, in Ireland, are steadily becoming denuded of trees, which brutalises the urban landscape, negatively impacts on wildlife and removes the health- improving and visual benefits that trees are now known to bestow.

A High Court jury has dismissed a claim by a farmer, Patrick Coyle, that he was unlawfully assaulted by gardaí during an early morning protest against the Shell Corrib gas refinery in Co Mayo.

Allegations of intimidation and counter-proceedings of alleged defamation involving existing and former members of the Church of Scientology were yesterday linked for a single hearing by a judge.

Only a stupid person would try to go shoplifting at Debenham’s, Brown Thomas or any of the big department stores in Cork City, a District Court judge said yesterday.

A judge has warned warring members and former members of the Church of Scientology to “sit down and be reasonable” with each other if they want to avoid a massive legal costs bill.

A 28-year-old Lithuanian forestry worker has appealed against his conviction last month for the double murder of a mother and daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in June 2013.

Ireland’s most expensive house was allowed to become derelict to gain a development advantage, it was claimed at yesterday’s An Bord Pleanála hearing.

A north Cork school that once taught classes in a converted toilet due to chronic overcrowding is celebrating "a red letter day" — as construction has finally begun on a new school building.

Your editorial about water charges displays an amazing lack of understanding of how the capitalist system, or the Thatcherite version, operates in this Republic.

Meet Shane Todd and he does a pretty convincing Brendan Rodgers!

Four of Crescent Comprehensive most distinguished sporting alumni returned to the Limerick school yesterday for the official opening of a new trophy room.

Michael O’Donnell (Letters, Jan 15) makes sense, suggesting the collection of rain water from Irish roofs.

I saw some alarming front page headlines in the Irish Examiner recently, like ‘€50m pay to experts’ and ‘Half of children with Down’s lose vital aid’.

A 27-year-old Lithuanian man, who has been charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter, has been sent forward for trial.

Joe Dermody (News, Nov 21) states: “Over half of Irish-branded pork and bacon products sold in Irish stores are imported.”

The Lithuanian man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in June, will be contesting the case against him and pleading not guilty to both counts, it was confirmed yesterday.

Gardaí yesterday revealed that 380 witness statements have been taken in the case against a 26-year-old man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in June.

Interpol is still assisting gardaí with the investigation into a double murder in Co Kerry in June, a court was told yesterday.

Michael O’Donnell had begun to despair of it ever happening, but yesterday the principal of Glenville National School in north Cork was breathing a sigh of relief that, after years of waiting, tortuous planning applications and frustrating delays, the Government had finally agreed to fund the building of a new school.

The parents of a 15-year-old boy have been fined €1,200 after their son failed to attend school in what was described as a “chronic level of absenteeism”.

A judge has threatened to jail the parents of a 12-year- old girl who has only attended 11 days of the current school year.

Requesting a public inquiry into Desmond De Silva’s report, if granted, will open a can of worms that scares the British “Counter Insurgency elite”.

The principal of a school finalising a planning application for a new building has criticised Ruairi Quinn, the education minister, for excluding it from his five-year school construction plan.

The solicitor of the 26-year-old man on trial for Shane Geoghegan’s murder told detectives he would admit to the killing if the mother of his sick child was released from custody.

The solicitor of the 26-year-old man on trial for Shane Geoghegan’s murder told detectives that he would admit to the killing if the mother of his sick child was released from custody.

“ALL for one and one for all,” the motto coined by Alexandre Dumas for his fictional Three Musketeers; it could instead have been coined for the very real hurling warriors of Effin.

A NEW national children’s hospital to be built on the site of the existing Mater Hospital in Dublin will provide “a world-class medical facility”, a public inquiry heard yesterday.