A lack of parking facilities will force visitors away from a top tourist town, it has been warned.

An expected land purchase to resolve a grave crisis in Killarney, Co Kerry, has fallen through.

A warning has been given that somebody will be killed at a dangerous bridge on one of the country’s busiest tourist routes unless safety measures are upgraded there.

A move to extend the ban on smoky coal to a leading tourist town, where air pollution far exceeds EU and World Health Organisation limits, has been resisted by councillors.

A warning has been given that someone will be killed by a vehicle in a Cork/Kerry border town because of poor public lighting and a lack of pedestrian crossings.

It look as if visitors to one of our main tourist towns — notorious for the rain — will have to bring their wet own gear for some time to come.

Despite objections from environmentalists, councillors have voted unanimously in favour of a contentious new access road to Killarney National Park.

Long-running efforts to resolve a graves crisis in Killarney, Co Kerry, are expected to bear fruit early in 2015.

A crisis has arisen in Killarney due to ongoing delays in acquiring land for a public burial ground in the Co Kerry tourist town, it was claimed yesterday. An emergency meeting of Killarney Municipal Authority is to be held next week because of slow progress on the purchase of the private cemetery by the council.

Kerry County Council was urged yesterday to call in a €1.25m bond on an unfinished housing estate in Castleisland.

Bereaved families are faced with “intolerable” situations over a continuing delay by Kerry County Council to secure land for a public burial site in Killarney.

Recently appointed Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe is being lobbied to get work started on building the long-awaited Macroom town bypass.

Singing legend Daniel O’Donnell is to be honoured for his contribution to the multi-million-euro tourism industry in Killarney, Co Kerry.