Update 12.33pm: A man in his 60s is to appear before a court in Tralee today in connection with the death of an elderly farmer yesterday in what local reports suggest may have been ’a row over noise’.

UPDATE: A 62-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a man in North Kerry. 

Gardaí in Listowel, Co Kerry, are appealing for information following a fatal collision near Finuge on Wednesday night after which a pedestrian in his 60s died.

A former Tyrone footballer has avoided conviction for refusing to give a blood or urine sample because gardaí failed to inform him of his obligations, a court has ruled.

A district court judge has said convicting retail giant Lidl for serving alcohol to a minor would be like “using a hammer to swat a fly”.

A 20-year-old man has been ordered to pay €2,500 to a law student whose nose he broke in an altercation.

A 24-year-old Tralee man called an ambulance to the Square in Listowel town centre so he and his drunken friend could get a lift back home, Listowel District Court was told.

A 39-year-old man has gotten into the habit of calling the emergency services — both the ambulance and the gardaí — if he has an argument with his fiancée, Listowel District Court was told.

Former Tyrone footballer Owen Mulligan told Listowel District Court yesterday that he didn’t think the man who arrived at Listowel Garda Station in the early hours to take a blood or urine sample from him — where he was under arrest on suspicion of drink driving — was a doctor.

WHEN Kerry won one of the most dour and tactically conservative All-Ireland finals in recent memory, last September, it would have been easiest to have put it down to tradition. Kerry win All-Irelands because that is what Kerry traditionally do. 

The teenage son of a Limerick crime boss used a powerful Glock semi-automatic handgun when he tried to kill the 17-year-old son of a rival crime gang member, it has emerged.

Three pensioners were seriously injured after they were struck by a car being pursued by gardaí in Parteen, Co Clare.

Gardaí have launched a murder probe after a pensioner was fatally stabbed at his home.

The appearance of poet Sylvia Plath on Leaving Certificate English Paper 2 will have brought joy to a huge proportion of the 35,000 higher-level students yesterday afternoon.

A handgun was recovered by gardaí yesterday, during raids on homes, in an operation targeting criminal gangs in Limerick.

The non-appearance of Sylvia Plath or Seamus Heaney was the talking point for most higher level Leaving Certificate English students last night.

WITH only about 5,000 Leaving Certificate engineering students in exam halls because of the rescheduled English papers, Junior Certificate candidates felt most pressure on day two of the state exams.

THE last day of the 2008 Leaving Certificate began with engineering papers for more than 5,000 students yesterday morning.

DESPITE danger warnings, a 57-year-old construction worker died in a trench collapse near Kenmare, Co Kerry, on October 26, 2005, an inquest was told in Killarney yesterday.

A Kerry rapist currently serving an eight-year sentence has been jailed for an additional seven years for attempted rape by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

SHOPS in the south-west selling valuable tourist-type goods and gift items are being targeted by professional shoplifters.