A four-star luxury castle hotel in Kerry has been refused planning permission for an extension, because of the adverse impact it would have on the historic building.

Kerry County Council has confirmed that one-fifth of the applicants have turned down offers for state of the art houses in a social housing development in Kenmare.

There will be no increase in the local property tax (LPT) next year for people living in Co Cork, despite calls for the county council to dip into its reserves to provide a cut in the tax for hard-pressed homeowners.

Kerry County Council is to use CPOs and powers available to it under derelict sites acts to acquire vacant houses to tackle chronic social housing needs in towns such as Killarney.

After years of discussions with landowners, and failure to reach agreement, Kerry County Council has decided to progress plans for a Greenway by compulsory purchase order, leading to resistance, reports Michael Clifford

All householders will be asked to produce written proof of using an authorised waste service under bylaws to go before the public in Kerry.

Kerry County Council is seeking funding to prevent flooding along a stretch of the Flesk river, on the main N22, near Killarney. Twenty houses have been cut off by annual flooding in recent years.

Kerry County Council voted by majority to bring in a dress code for local politicians — and to push for this to be extended to the Dáil.

Plans to build a respite care centre for sick children near Tralee, to honour the memory of two Kerry children who died of an incurable degenerative condition, have been put on hold following objections from a GAA club.

Documents under the Freedom of Information reveal just over €780,000 was paid out in 30 public liability claims against Kerry County Council in an 18-month period to the end of June last.

Kerry County Council is examining locations for cable cars to enhance the Kingdom’s tourism appeal.

Twenty years after a lobby group protested in Brussels over the poor state of a Co Kerry peninsula road, serious discussions have finally commenced on finalising land acquisition for the national secondary route.

The housing crisis in Kerry is becoming “unsolvable”, Kerry County Council has been told. Some 5,073 applicants await housing, amid fears they will not be eligible to purchase their house under a new scheme.

Votes cast in Listowel in last year’s election for Kerry County Council will have to be counted again following a Supreme Court ruling.

Consultants have been hired by Kerry County Council to examine what has gone wrong with the traffic system in Killarney.

Kerry County Council plans to spend €62m in providing 1,058 housing units in the next three years.

CCTV cameras in areas where missiles have been thrown from bridges onto cars and other vehicles has been ruled out by Kerry County Council.

It looks as if Civil War politics in Kerry — where the conflict was at its most bitter — could soon be over, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael forming an alliance on the county council.

Despite strong warnings that Kerry’s road network will deteriorate further, funding for the county council’s 2014 roadworks programme has been slashed by 34%.

A local authority is to continue supporting a swimming pool complex in a well-known seaside resort, this year.

Close links between University College Cork and Kerry dating to the mid-19th century were recalled yesterday when the board of governors held its first meeting in the county.

The use of covert cameras is to be extended to more illegal dumping blackspots in Kerry in the hope of providing conviction-securing evidence.