IT CAN only be a matter of time before someone brings out the boxset — put in your order now, 48 seasons of the Rose of Tralee live from the capital of Kerry.

THE Schering-Plough crisis is just the latest in a growing series of job losses and “restructuring” moves involving Cork and Munster-based companies which have turned the region into one of the worst unemployment blackspots in the country.

A JURY yesterday acquitted a 29-year-old Polish man of murder but found him guilty of the manslaughter of his lover’s estranged husband after a First Holy Communion party, in Tralee, Co Kerry.

MORE than 200 jobs were axed in north Kerry last night in what is being termed as a catastrophe for the region's workforce on a par with the Limerick pull-out by computer giant Dell.

The closure of a textile factory with the loss of more than 200 jobs was today branded a catastrophe for north Kerry.