Kerry clubs have given the county’s Competitions Control Committee (CCC) the green light to a look at the regional minor leagues this summer as concern is growing that players are being denied football because neighbouring clubs will not amalgamate.

The Kerry GAA chairman has described Colm Cooper’s wait for the Player of the Year award as “mind-boggling”.

I was talking to a man last Friday and he said something that brings a smile to my face every time I’ve thought about it since.

As emigration threatens the survival of GAA clubs in one of its greatest strongholds, senior figures in the association are to hold a special meeting on the situation in Kerry tonight.

For the first time in 160 years, an imposing building which dominates Killarney, Co Kerry, and which once had more than 1,000 residents, was unoccupied last night.

Turf-cutting is a skill farmers know is dying. But a new film captures the camaraderie at the bog, says Áilín Quinlan

NORTH Cork dairy farmers are broadly happy that they can meet the calving and production guidelines in Dairygold’s new milk pricing system, it emerged at an IFA-hosted meeting in Mallow last night.

BREWING giant Heineken crushed heritage campaigners’ hopes yesterday of developing a heritage centre on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

ANY development on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery which is due to close within weeks will be considerate and appropriate, Heineken bosses said yesterday.

KERRY GAA secretary Eamon O’Sullivan has come up with a novel way to rescue the ailing inter-provincials — play them as curtain raisers to the All-Ireland finals in September.

KERRY’s determination to reclaim their All-Ireland title from Tyrone must not be at the expense of admiring what the Red Hands have achieved in recent years, according to outgoing Kerry selector, Dr Dave Geaney.

This weekend Tyrone, Kerry and Antrim undertake lengthy journeys in search of Allianz League points. Colm O’Connor discovers just how costly and complex these trips can be.

WHILE participation in the Christy Ring and Nicky Rackard Cups is causing fixture concerns for some county boards, there remains broad support for the retention of the competitions.

PATIENTS and visitors to Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, will now have a colourful and constant reminder of the glories of Kerry football.

KERRY County Board secretary Eamon O’Sullivan claims clubs who undertook or assisted legal action to resolve Parish Rule disputes did “a grave disservice to the association.”

A FATHER whose six-year-old son died in a fall on a building site welcomed a District Court judge's decision to move the case to a higher court because the maximum fine he could impose on the builders was only €1,900.