Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice has backed Paul Murphy to shine again at centre-forward, though he accepts that tomorrow’s Allianz FL Division 1 clash with Donegal in Tralee will represent a different challenge for the Rathmore man than Down did last week.

A gallery of photographs from the GloHealth Munster Schools Cross Country, held at Tramore Valley Park, Cork City on Thursday, February 11.

Dr Crokes will face Austin Stacks in the 2015 Kerry Division 1 SFL final following Stacks’ 1-12 to 0-7 victory over Legion in the Division 1 play-off at Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday.

Margo McGann, of the ASTI, said the higher level Leaving Cert business exam was fair but really tested knowledge, so only the most dedicated and focused students would have earned top grades.

John Leahy (Irish Examiner, October 18) blames warped planning and windmills for destroying the beauty of Crosshaven. But it is Irish Don Quixotes who are attacking windmills believing them to be ferocious giants.

You have to reach back almost 40 years for Shannon Rangers football fairytales. The division — so far into north Kerry that Clare is closer than Tralee and Limerick is as close as Listowel — have more stories about carping than cups.

A former Fianna Fáil politician who lost out on a seat by two votes in the recent local elections yesterday began his civil action to have the result in the Listowel area of Co Kerry declared invalid.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes that his side would be unlucky to miss out on the Allianz Football League Division 1 semi-finals if they beat Cork in tomorrow’s clash in Tralee (3pm).

With so many directives/imperatives coming from the EU, troika and self-appointed bureaucrats it’s hard to know what laws and initiatives are coming solely from our own government.

For the first time since 2009, Kerry will begin a championship match against Cork without Kieran Donaghy filling the number 14 shirt after he was left out of Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s side for Sunday’s Munster SFC final in Killarney (2pm).

FIVE Munster bank branches are being offered individually for sale, in counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick, with AIB likely to receive around €700,000 in total from the sales.

A fashionista who came prepared for all weathers scooped the best-dressed prize on the penultimate day of Listowel Races yesterday.

Budget cuts to state-funded school transport schemes are uprooting children from their communities and heaping heavy costs on parents, it has been claimed.

A Fine Gael councillor has described as “unacceptable” the failure of the Government to bring a 500-plus jobs project to fruition.

A top-level Kerry delegation has been heartened by Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s support for a €500m gas terminal proposed for the Shannon Estuary, amid serious concerns it would not proceed.

Kerry manager Jack O'Connor has made seven changes in personnel for their Allianz Football League Division 1 tie against Laois in Killarney on Sunday (throw-in 2.30pm).

The Taoiseach and the Government were yesterday called on to intervene to save a €500m gas project earmarked for Tarbert, on the Shannon Estuary.

YOUNG Tarbert trainer Patrick O’Connor secured the Leading Public Trainer title at Tralee on Tuesday night when he brought his season’s tally to 69 with a dazzling five-timer at the Kingdom Greyhound Supporters Club Festival Night Of Racing.

TADHG KENNELLY’S return to gaelic football didn’t have a fairytale ending yesterday as his Listowel Emmets side crashed out of the North Kerry championship with a semi-final defeat to arch rivals Finuge in Tarbert.

DESPITE the gloomy economic climate, it has been a tremendous year for greyhound racing.

PAT Kelly, the Tarbert-based auctioneer, says most of the land for sale in his area is “off-market”. So, with consistent demand for grazing for the area’s strong dairy industry, he expects strong demand for a farm he has for sale.

FORMER Kerry captain Dara Ó Cinnéide is disappointed with Tomás Ó Sé’s latest act of indiscipline and insists everything must go right if the Kingdom are to finish as All-Ireland champions.

IT’S been the most frequent fixture in the football championship over the last decade but there will not be too many survivors from Cork and Kerry’s summer clashes on show at a chilly Austin Stack Park tonight in the McGrath Cup.

KERRY’s Paul Galvin could be ready for a return to Sigerson Cup action — at the ripe old age of 30!

SPANISH energy giant Endesa must provide more information on environmental issues as part of its planning application for a €500 million gas-fired power plant at Tarbert.

HEAVY traffic generated by the building of a power station and an accompanying LNG (liquefied natural gas) importing terminal in Tarbert, Co Kerry, could cause serious congestion in the village, an oral planning hearing was told in Listowel yesterday.

A PIONEERING E-Town project, which will encourage people to work from home, is expected to create jobs in Tarbert, Co Kerry.

THEY’RE not exactly flavour of the month amongst intercounty managers, but third-level sides are determined to leave their mark on the 2010 pre-season GAA fare.

PLANS by Endesa to reduce its workforce by 35 at its electricity generating plant, in north Kerry, were greeted by disappointment in the area yesterday.

THE final of the Mike Cronin Readymix unraced Juvenile Classic at Tralee last night was expected to go to Tarbert trainer Pat O’Connor who had three runners in the final, including 2/1 favourite Christmas Box, but instead it went across the Shannon to Milltown Malbay when Paradise Miami, owned and trained by Sean Meade, took the prize.

COUNTY senior hurling champions Sarsfields will face fellow east Cork side Castlelyons in their first defence of their title on Saturday May 2, a game down for decision in Midleton.

ACTOR Pierce Brosnan, 55, has come out in support of a group opposing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal development near Tarbert, Co Kerry.

The draw for the 2008 oneills.com Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Football Sevens was announced today at the launch at Croke Park.

THE EU has been creating schemes which are not being implemented as expected. In the case of the farmers’ early retirement scheme, changes were made to the terms and conditions while the EU Commission and the Department of Agriculture each lays the blame with the other.

ESB management is to ask for approval from its board to close three power stations by the year 2010.

NEWBRIDGE College, Co Kildare won the TCH All-Ireland Schools Quiz number 191 last night on a tiebreaker from St Joseph’s Patrician College, Galway.

Regional development agency Shannon Development has entered into an "option-to-purchase" agreement with Shannon LNG in relation to 281 acres of the 600-acre Shannon Development-owned land bank between Tarbert and Ballylongford, Co Kerry.

GEORGEENA and Beyond Tivoli are two high profile absentees from the Hotel Minella Oaks, while 33-1 shot Murty’s Destiny misses the Boylesports Derby at Clonmel this morning.

A PRIVATE company wants to build a €250 million gas-fired electricity generating plant in Cork harbour.

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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.

THE Green Party has criticised a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow the ESB scrap 13 pollution monitoring stations around the Moneypoint and Tarbert power plants on the Shannon Estuary.