With no radio, the ship’s captain had no way of knowing he was in Tralee Bay three days earlier than expected, writes Ryle Dwyer

On Easter Saturday 1916, Tom Clifford sat down in his room in 4 Gardiner St to write a letter to his brother Dan. The letter has recently been discovered by their niece, Carmel Clifford.

THE 1916 medal, awarded posthumously to a young Kerry radio operator who died on his way to seize radio equipment on Valentia Island to contact the arms ship the Aud on Holy Thursday of that year, was yesterday handed over to the Kerry County Museum.

IT was not always recognised, but the first casualties of the 1916 Rising occurred in Kerry - three days before the real action got under way in Dublin.

TIGER WOODS and a whole host of other US Tour players were due at Shannon Airport this morning ahead of the JP McManus pro-am at Adare Manor Golf Hotel and Resort.