A boom tourist season is expected in the Dingle Peninsula this year with increased visitor numbers especially from the US and Britain.

Hillwalkers using Ireland’s highest mountain are to be asked to put money in an ‘honesty box’ when they park their cars.

A 37-year-old man who suffered headaches and was left with a fear of hedge strimmers after being injured on a Community Employment work placement scheme has been awarded €25,000 in an action against the South Kerry Development Partnership (SKDP).

An academic researcher who contributed significantly to the growth of the Men’s Shed movement in Australia — where it all began — has admitted to being highly impressed by the growth of the organisation in Ireland.

Continuous use of one of the country’s most panoramic landscapes by tens of thousands of enthusiasts is giving rise to worsening erosion.

Lands needed to complete a €4m greenway cycle route high over the Ring of Kerry are to be acquired by compulsory purchase order because grant funding will run out if the project is not completed by December 2016, councillors have been told.

Offers of help to re-erect a vandalised steel cross on the summit of Ireland’s highest mountain continue to flood in from all over the country.

Kerry County Council will look at other options, including alternative routes, if progress on the proposed iconic cycle and pedestrian greenway along the old Cahersiveen to Glenbeigh railway is impeded.

The Government had not even begun negotiations with up to 120 landowners before its pre-local and European elections’ announcements earlier this year, for a €4m greenway-cycleway on the Ring of Kerry.

The death has taken place of Paddy O’Callaghan, of Cromane, Co Kerry, who was well-known as a sportsman, republican, and community activist.

A RIVER flowing through a town should, you might expect, be seen as an advantage — not only for its beauty and environmental value, but also for very practical reasons.

A €5m environmental project has been announced by Jimmy Deenihan, the arts, heritage, and gaeltacht minister, aimed at restoring an endangered mussel in South Kerry.

Upwards of 300 people yesterday protested outside a meeting of Kerry County Council over plans to set up local community development committees to replace county development boards.

A 26km greenway to be developed along a disused railway line skirting the Atlantic along the Ring of Kerry is expected to become an internationally rated tourist attraction.

A new plan has been drawn up to manage public access to one of the country’s most popular mountain ranges.

Bridges and tunnels on an abandoned railway line, earmarked for a walking and cycling route on the Ring of Kerry, are to be examined to determine their structural condition.

A second pit bull attack inside a week in Co Kerry has intensified calls for stricter enforcement of laws for the control of dangerous dogs.

Dogs have been banned from Ireland’s highest mountain because pets unleashed by their owners have been attacking sheep.

A local development group which helped kickstart 245 enterprises in 2012 yesterday hit out at a near-20% cut to Government funding.

A local authority has been accused of lacking leadership in a heated row which could scupper plans for a major tourist walking and cycling trail along a disused railway line.

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton yesterday refused to be drawn on the controversy surrounding the Government’s plans to abolish EU-backed rural development companies.

Valentia’s centuries-old tradition of sea rescue and sea tragedy is to be commemorated with a memorial on the seafront.

It used to be the pub, a snooker room, a betting office, or even the street corner but a growing number of Irish men with time on their hands are finding a new place to meet for a chat.

As if Kerry didn’t have enough excuses for a knees-up, here comes another — but this one is sited on the island of Valentia (next parish New York).

Locations in Killarney where the first full-length “talkie” film in Ireland was made in the mid-1930s have been mapped out in a tourist trail.

More than 100 entrepreneurs from England, Wales, Holland, Belgium, and Ireland are visiting EU-funded businesses in south Kerry.

Upwards of 160 delegates from countries in the north west of Europe will attend a conference in Killarney next month on EU-funded projects for areas such as south Kerry.

IT’S heart-lifting to see so many people back in their vegetable gardens again.

Maintaining good relations with employers has been described as the key to the success of a jobs programme in Kerry.

A NUMBER of organisations in Kerry have joined forces to tackle rural isolation and growing suicide levels among elderly people.

A KERRY farmer has invented a device that could help save the lives of farmers in danger of being attacked by bulls.

KERRY natives successful in businesses overseas are to be invited to a Farmleigh-type meeting in the county next May with a view to creating jobs at home.

THE important role of farmers in protecting the environment of one of the country’s most scenic areas, along the Ring of Kerry, is highlighted in a new report.

AS walking becomes an increasingly popular past-time, opening up the countryside been a key issue for lovers of the outdoors.

AT A time when archaeological remains are being bulldozed to make way for roads, shopping, farming and housing developments, some communities are taking a stand to protect their heritage.

IN an effort to provide an alcohol-free environment in which young people can enjoy themselves, moves are being made to form a No Name Club in Killarney.

PARENTS should have to pay medical costs arising from treatment of children who are injured due to alcohol abuse, Minister of State Noel Ahern told a conference on addiction yesterday.

Any proposed shock tactics that would effectively curb the horrendous consequences of alcohol abuse must be given some consideration.