The death has occurred of former Heineken managing director and Musgrave commercial director, Padraig Liston.

Tourist haven Killarney is set for a bonanza weekend as it gears up for an eagerly-awaited football clash between Kerry and Tyrone.

Scuffles broke out as a contentious parade passed through North Belfast today.

Hundreds of anti-riot police will be on duty today amid fears of street disorder in north Belfast after a big Orange Order demonstration in the city.

Yesterday’s meeting in Belfast was a symbolic moment that closes what was begun with the British Queen’s visit to the Republic last year.

SPORTING legends spanning many codes were in Killarney yesterday for the funeral Mass of popular businessman and sportsman Denis Coffey who died suddenly at the weekend.

WITH a sense of timing that was absolutely perfect, little Charlie O’Meara arrived into the world just hours after his proud dad stepped out of the limelight at the Irish Open Golf Championship.

The Killarney Racing Festival began yesterday in beautiful summer weather.

WILD deer roaming around Co Kerry are endangering people’s lives and damaging property, it was claimed yesterday.

KERRY is set to capitalise on the huge international publicity given to the 3 Irish Open Golf Championship, held in Killarney.

IT was, as they say, like a day you’d write away for.

The 3 Irish Open Golf Championship is underway in Killarney, Co, Kerry today.

A PROTEST by workers at the Liebherr container crane factory, in Killarney, is to go ahead on Thursday at the opening of 3 Irish Open Golf Championship in the town, SIPTU confirmed yesterday.

THE Liebherr company in Killarney has claimed it is not breaching any agreement by obliging employees to take two days’ holidays during the four-day 3 Irish Open Golf Championship in the Kerry town.

THE former boss of brewing giant Heineken Ireland has been appointed the interim executive director of Cork Opera House.

LONG-suffering residents are set to protest tomorrow at the appalling condition of a national primary road which runs through two mid-Cork villages.

FEARS of a recurrence of major flooding in Tralee have prompted a new study of at-risk areas of the town.

IT WAS only after “robust discussions” between sponsors ‘3’ and the European Tour that the August Bank Holiday was agreed as the date for next year’s Irish Open Golf Championship to be played for the third time over the Killeen Course at Killarney.

Shane LOWRY, 22, certainly helped to raise the spirit of the nation yesterday with his magnificent performance in winning the Irish Open Golf Championship at Baltray.

A HUGE village party has been organised in Adare to coincide with the Irish Open Golf Championship, which takes place there from May 15 to 18.

LIKE Howard Beale in Network, he’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more.

NISSAN IRELAND confirmed that it will continue its sponsorship of the Irish Open Golf Championship in 2006.

GUINNESS last night declined to confirm reports that it plans to withdraw sponsorship from a Kerry festival at which the products of other drinks companies were sold last weekend.