A farmer found wavering across white lines on a 1974 tractor so poorly equipped it was barely recognised as a vehicle was again before Kenmare District Court yesterday. This time the vehicle involved was a car.

When two ambulance personnel arrived at the home of a “heartbroken” man at Rock Street, Kenmare, Co Kerry — who had been lying down on the town’s Main Street in an intoxicated state — he produced two knives.

A sheep farmer has been sent forward for trial to the Circuit Criminal Court, on two charges relating to having a Winchester rifle with a telescopic sight and aiming it at two gardaí during a siege at his Kerry farm.

A 47-year-old farmer has appeared in court charged with aiming a telescopically fitted rifle at two gardaí, arising out of a stand-off on the Ring of Kerry last January.

A roguish bachelor whom Kenmare ladies found irresistible was finding it very difficult to clear his pub, Kenmare District Court was told yesterday.

A student, found with cannabis plants and a weighing scales, claimed he was part of “a hobbyist cannabis culture” following a connoisseur’s blogs.

A chip shop owner and rate payer in Kenmare, Co Kerry, became so irate with a mobile chip van that was parked outside his door on busy weekend nights last October that he wielded an iron bar, Kenmare District Court heard.

A court yesterday heard of “bad blood” on the traditional jarvey stand in Killarney, Co Kerry, and of how a number of jarveys are being accused of using technology to harass others.

Plenty of people have lost money playing pool — but maybe not on a round table.

Kerry County Councillor and publican Danny Healy Rae has pleaded guilty to allowing people to consume alcohol “after hours” in his Kilgarvan premises.

Officers from the National Transport Authority carried out an alleged sting operation on a 71-year-old man in Co Kerry who was operating taxis without a licence.

Kerry County Councillor and publican Danny Healy- Rae has been summonsed for allegedly having his public house at Main St, Kilgarvan, open after hours on two occasions.

A Kerry farmer found wavering across white lines near Sneem on his poorly- equipped 1974 tractor — described in court as "a machine" — has had a charge of intoxication while driving dismissed.

Complicated case law is being consulted to decide whether Kenmare gardaí were entitled to pursue an allegedly intoxicated Kerry farmer who was driving a 40-year-old tractor into the driveway of another person’s home in the early hours.

A 27-year-old Lithuanian man, who has been charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter, has been sent forward for trial.

A 27-year-old man will face trial, charged with the double murder of a Lithuanian woman and her daughter at their rented home in Killorglin in Co Kerry earlier this year.

Kerry County Council is facing legal challenges from what could be termed opposite sides in its attempt to bring in new street trading laws in Kenmare.

A former property developer and former co-owner of a Tralee hotel, “in debt to the tune of €9m” and before the courts on a hit-and-run allegation, has been refused free legal aid.

A sheep thief was caught red handed at a mart in Kerry after a lamb he was trying to sell spotted his owner in the crowd and ran to him.

A man who pretended his mother — who lives in Belgium — was driving the family car, so that his wife might avoid another set of penalty points, has been charged with giving false information under the Road Traffic Acts.

A man has been told to produce medical evidence that he was growing cannabis for pain relief and had only resorted to its use after orthodox medicine failed.

THE man who denies murdering a Fermoy man two years ago spoke to a detective on a car journey to a court and said: “I fucked up badly. I gave him a few slaps alright. He owed me about €500.”

A MAN arrested in north Kerry on Thursday night on foot of a bench warrant issued in Cork two months ago has been remanded in custody.

Two men have been detained for questioning today over the death of a father-of-six last August during the Rose of Tralee festival.

A 25-year-old man was remanded in custody tonight charged with the manslaughter of a mother-of-three.