The Kerry-based hotel group behind the last-minute legal challenge to the €50m state-funding package for Cork's event centre has been accused of lodging a “nasty, vexatious, commercial ambush” on the stalled project.

Victoria White (Irish Examiner, May 23) on the progressive diminution of the powers of local government resonates very strongly with me.

Having fought a long, but unsuccessful battle to save Killarney Town Council from Phil Hogan’s ruthless axe, I am watching with considerable interest the struggle that is beginning in Cork. 

This is the insidious Japanese knotweed, one of the fastest-growing and most destructive of our adverse invasive plants and weeds.

Council chiefs have been urged to repurpose a “monumentally ugly” disused factory in a tourist town.

A Fine Gael senator has had a summons for illegal parking against him dismissed after he told the court he never saw the notice placed on his windscreen or any follow up warnings — and his wife would have made him pay the fine if the notice arrived at the house.

Bereaved families are faced with “intolerable” situations over a continuing delay by Kerry County Council to secure land for a public burial site in Killarney.

The father of a former top jockey liked to have a flutter every day and he generally won, mourners were told at his funeral yesterday.

The appointment of the first woman to head up a local authority in Kerry was unanimously ratified yesterday.

One of the last acts of Killarney Town Council has been to clinch a deal for the purchase of a cemetery in the area.

Councils have to bail out the losses racked up by public pools and leisure centres, says Conor Ryan, Investigative Correspondent.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has lent his support to retain key services in Killarney, which are being transferred from the tourist town to Tralee, saying centralisation has not happened in other authorities and is not required under local government reform.

A renowned beauty spot and a magnet for tourists for more than 250 years, Killarney, which likes to dub itself the “tourism capital”, has always seen itself as a place apart.

The end is in sight in a 20-year search for land suitable for a public graveyard in Killarney, Co Kerry.

A claim that there will be “utter bedlam’’ in a top tourist town during the summer following the abolition of the town council has been rejected by a senior manager.

Moves are under way to cut back dangerous trees along a 1km stretch of one of the country’s busiest tourist routes. A number of fatal accidents involving trees have occurred on the Ring of Kerry road just outside Killarney and recent storms have made trees unstable, it has been claimed.

The extracts from council minutes and other documentation which established the municipal rate for 2012 are to be made available to a number of Killarney rate payers yesterday after an application by their solicitor.

It can’t be sunny all the time, but two busy tourist towns are getting ready to protect folk from the worst of the weather — with giant umbrellas.

Dozens of businesses in the tourist town of Killarney, including a number of restaurants, have received summonses for unpaid rates.

In a further blow to the Labour party, one of the country’s longest-serving town councillors yesterday announced he is leaving the party.

Water charges under the new household metering system by Irish Water could be higher than expected, it has been claimed.

A bronze statue of an Irish priest credited with saving the lives of thousands of people in Rome during the Second World War will soon grace his hometown.

The escalating cost of agricultural land is making it difficult to acquire land for burial ground in an area already short of publicly- owned grave plots.

Heritage body An Taisce is to appeal plans for a public car park on a Killarney town section of the Ring of Kerry.

A relative of a 59-year-old businessman, killed in a suspected gas explosion, has called for sensors to be made available to emergency services to check if a trapped person is alive inside a building.

The need for “creative thinking” about the future use of a Victorian-era hospital complex overlooking Killarney, Co Kerry, has been highlighted.

A suspected gas explosion that rocked Killarney, Co Kerry, at 6.20am on Saturday claimed the life of a popular local businessman, further loss of life being avoided due to the early hour of the blast.

Irish Examiner reporter Donal Hickey has received a civic award for his contribution to journalism.

A further tightening of planning regulations is being sought to halt the opening of head shops selling drugs paraphernalia.

The thumbs down has been given to a district heating system capable of providing cheaper hot water for 5,000 homes in Killarney.

An age-old rowing tradition on the famous Lakes of Killarney will be celebrated with a visit, this summer, by crews from famed universities Oxford and Cambridge.

Proposals to continue using the Reeks Gateway building in Killarney as a medical centre are meeting with further planning delays.

A former mayor from a soon-to-be-abolished local authority has described, as “ridiculous”, a government direction to formulate a six-year development plan.

Time is running out for efforts to acquire land for a burial ground in Killarney.

Three GP practices, which have been operating without planning permission in a Kerry medical centre, will have moved out by the end of next month.

A €1.5m centre for the homeless is to be provided in a Co Kerry town, with construction work expected to start in the next two months.

The future of a Kerry medical centre is uncertain as three GP practices have begun the process of relocating, following a ruling by An Bord Pleanála.

Fáilte Ireland will shortly decide on a submission seeking its support for a €5m cultural and sports heritage project in Kerry.

Selected streets in Killarney in Co Kerry are getting a roof.

The public response, thus far, to Minister Hogan’s proposals to abolish town councils and replace them with municipal authorities has been understandably muted.

Legal obstacles may have to be removed to make land available for a badly needed burial ground in Killarney.

A mansion undergoing a €7m refurbishment is to become the main visitor and interpretive centre for Killarney National Park and South Kerry.

A controversial Sacred Heart statue is to remain in its ground-level position outside Killarney Community Hospital, An Bord Pleanála has decided.

Planning has been approved for the ground floor of a contentious medical centre in Killarney, Co Kerry.

Plans to carry out roadworks in Killarney at the height of the busy tourist season are leading to objections in the Co Kerry town.

Two Killarney brothers who have opposed each other in elections and in the council chamber, have shown that blood is, truly, thicker than water.

Residents of a Kerry town are objecting to the proposed site of a €15 million “green” heating plant.