Local charities in Kerry got less than €50,000 from the court poor box last year, while international charities benefited to the tune of €480,000 from offenders who came before the county’s courts.

THREE intrepid Kerry women have climbed the four highest peaks in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, all for a good cause.

UPWARDS of 200 nurses yesterday staged what they described as a ‘silent and dignified protest’ when Health Minister Mary Harney came to Tralee to open a new unit at Kerry General Hospital.

ECHOES of a brave dead woman who lost her long battle with cancer just over a month ago can be heard on a CD she recorded shortly before her death.

DRINKING large amounts of stimulants may seem an unusual method of fundraising, but coffee lovers turned out in every county in Ireland yesterday to indulge themselves in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation.