Even the presence of an upgraded marina has not stopped “the continuous decline of Caherciveen” and now the town’s Main Street is full of derelict buildings, its pavements broken and footpaths cracked, a delegation of business leaders has told a council meeting.

Made famous by the Healy-Rae’s, it’s a lit like no other and similar to other counties.

An award of €900,000 was made yesterday to the family of a 42-year-old man fatally injured while training for a charity cycle in Kerry in aid of people with Down Syndrome.

Almost 1,000 people have signed a petition to help a Ring of Kerry village secure a doctor. A continuing GP service in Sneem and its surrounding area is at risk, with the village doctor, Patrick Malone, due to retire after 34 years, writes Anne Lucey.

Almost 1,000 people have signed a petition to help a Ring of Kerry village secure a doctor. A continuing GP service in Sneem and its surrounding area is at risk, with the village doctor, Patrick Malone, due to retire after 34 years.

A judge and jury will hear the case against a 71-year-old man charged with impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death.

Ray Ryan explains how O’Sullivan’s Bakery in Killorglin has managed to retain its timeless charm while evolving through the generations...

After years of torture and torment, the Mid Kerry club finally struggles over a major psychological hurdle to claim its first Kerry Junior football title, writes Tony Leen

The garda file in the case against a man charged with impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death is complex and runs to 10 volumes, it emerged yesterday.

A 71-year-old man from Newmarket was arrested yesterday and charged with impeding the prosecution of his son on a charge of dangerous driving causing death.

A Cork consultant today ditches his white coat and stethoscope for cycling shorts and a helmet as he begins training for a biking challenge from Dublin to Galway.

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.

Legal costs, paid for by the State, associated with the 14-day trial of a 23-year-old man who denied killing a father of four who had been training for the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle in July 2012 have amounted to just under €70,000.

County Council officials stood on platforms so they could peer over a high metal fence to see if a small-time businessman they were pursuing through the courts was complying with planning on a remote section of the Ring of Kerry, a court in Killarney was told yesterday.

The happiest group of people at last night’s low-key annual delegates meeting of the Munster Branch of the Golfing Union of Ireland in Mallow were the representatives of Ballyneety Golf Club, formerly Limerick County, who were awarded the Munster Branch Club of the Year award for 2014.

Steely ambition and hard slog has prepared Rozanna Purcell for the Ring Of Kerry cycling event, she tells Ed Power

The committee in charge of the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle has decided to offer 200 places through a lottery after a record number of applications.

The book of evidence is not ready for serving on a 21-year-old North Cork man charged with a fatal hit-and-run on a cyclist who had been training for the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle in July 2012.

DAMIEN O’CARROLL was living the dream in Australia until the nightmare happened.

A man charged in connection with the road death of a Ring of Kerry charity cyclist has secured bail.

Gardaí arrested a man on the runway at Cork Airport yesterday and charged him with dangerous driving causing the death in July 2012 of a cyclist preparing for the Ring of Kerry charity cycle.

Nine Kerry-based charities are to benefit from the 2014 Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle.

The grieving widow of a 42-year-old cyclist killed in a hit and run a year ago said the driver who left her husband to die at the side of the road had a “heart of stone”.

Emigration is a topic so often tinged with sadness and regret but from sunny San Diego, California, comes news of an Irishman turning adversity into the hope of fulfilling a lifelong dream.

Fáilte Ireland representatives and tourism groups on the Ring of Kerry are to pressure the Office of Public Works to postpone the closure of Derrynane House, the museum home of Daniel O’Connell, in the year of The Gathering.

One of the country’s premier hotels, the five-star Sheen Falls Lodge in Kenmare, Co Kerry, is to be sold in a deal worth about €5m.

Retired Garda John Moloughney (Templemore) has been elected Chairman of the Munster Council of the Golfing Union of Ireland.

A Kerry sheep farmer who drove his vintage tractor, Betsy, across America’s famous Route 66 last month has so far raised €25,000 for cancer research.

A local authority is insisting that hefty penalties will have to be paid by US, British, and other European citizens who evaded charges for their holiday homes in the south-west.

ICOS represent 130 co-ops in Ireland, primarily in dairy, livestock and rural co-operative enterprise sectors.

The practice of dezoning land designated for housing during the boom times is to be continued by Kerry County Council.

BIDS are at an advanced stage and heading towards €20m from European and Asian parties on the Fota Island Resort in Cork harbour this month, as Kerry’s Parknasilla gem joins Fota on the international sales market.

Some felt it in their hearts, some read it on their heart rate monitors.

Gardaí investigating a fatal hit-and-run in Co Kerry are closing in on the driver after identifying the exact type of vehicle involved.

MANY visitors to the Ring of Kerry are missing out on some of its greatest attractions by not deviating from better-known routes, a local councillor have claimed.

A CORONER has blamed “pure loneliness” as a contributory factor to a high incident rate of suicides in a rural region.

A MAN is set to run the scenic Ring of Kerry in a single day to raise funds for a little boy who has stunned medics by his recovery from pioneering surgery for a fatal brain disease.

ANTI-vandal devices are likely to be placed on Kerry’s roadsigns — where an age-old practice of misdirecting tourists in the Kingdom remains alive and well.

ENDA Kenny still has to persuade the public he understands economic issues, Richard Bruton has said.

A CORK woman is the bookies’ favourite to win a seat for the Conservatives in the Bolton West constituency which is being vacated by Labour’s Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly.

THE Kerry town once voted by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top Ten places worldwide to retire has houses cheap enough that even reduced pension retirees can aspire to.

A LOCAL voluntary group, which has raised over €2 million for good causes, has been accorded a civic reception by Kerry county mayor Ted Fitzgerald.