SLATTERYS Escorted Tours’ new brochure promotes independent holidays to far-flung places. Eighty-five specially-designed tours have been selected from across the globe.

ONE of the country’s most famous hotel groups is to manage a newly completed waterfront complex in West Cork.

THE political ethics watchdog is to investigate the actions of two councillors linked to a controversial rezoning in Killarney.

THE family-run Gleneagle Hotel Group is to expand its empire beyond Kerry by taking over the newly-built Silver Swan Hotel.