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.

Three cannabis factories with plants reckoned to be worth more than €2m have been raided by gardaí.

THE Kerryman, which has been published in broadsheet format for 105 years, will from next week, along with its sister paper The Corkman, be in "compact format", its readers have been told in the current edition.

MANY weary travellers have been glad of a bed for the night at the popular Lisnagree hostel in Tralee, which has just come up for sale.

THE closure of high-profile IDA -backed firms like Gateway with the loss of 900 jobs could result in a €24 million exchequer windfall.