Although they failed to score in the opening 24 minutes, and conceded 2-4 in that spell, Kenmare Shamrocks completed an impressive turnaround to defeat West Kerry by three points in Fitzgerald Stadium.

Bride and groom Aoife O’Callaghan and Finbarr McCarthy returned to the scene of their first encounter — and first date — on their big day.

Fianna Fáil have retained the top positions in the new Kerry County Council, with support from Fine Gael and Labour and three independents.

A call has been made for the Council in Kerry to take over the 10,200-hectare Killarney National Park so it can be properly staffed and maintained.

Just when you think you have them cornered, Kerry find a way out.

No-one else has to die here —that’s the blunt message from two Americans with a tragic connection who have backed calls to close a lethal turn on a stretch of the N20 Cork to Limerick road.

Inishmaan, Co Galway, is a glorious place but it can be challenging too.

Famed for its lakes and high peaks, scenic Kerry county has an unwanted mountain — of litter. Over 220 tonnes of general litter and household waste was fly-tipped on roadsides, and at bottle banks, in the country’s top tourist county last year.

A vet has admitted to operating a system of "madness" supplying animal medications without prescription at three pharmacies he owns in Cork.

Well, of course, we did have bears, but not on Bere Island. The island is named after the peninsula and is derived from the Spanish princess Bera who was married to the first king of Munster, Eogan More.

The manager of a livestock mart in Kerry wants couples-to-be to consider the auction ring as a likely venue to tie the knot.

A huge increase in tourist and leisure traffic in a remote valley in Kerry is putting lives at risk, a meeting has heard.

Dan McCarthy speaks to the people taking over at the new An Oige hostel as it moves to Wellington Road.

Whenever Dan McCarthy came back to Iveleary from the US, he brought his camera with him. He shows Helen O’Callaghan the pictures he took.

Des O’Driscoll on the best things to do this week

Drivers of heavy goods vehicles are “going astray” when maps and satellite navigational systems direct them through tunnels and bog roads in south Kerry.

A dual-qualified pharmacist and vet has been convicted of impeding officials from the Department of Agriculture as they sought veterinary prescription records from his place of work. He was yesterday fined €10,000.

February 24, 2007. One of Irish sport’s greatest days. One of the GAA’s proudest too, as rugby and England were made welcome in Croke Park. 

Some are household names, others have been overlooked but a move is on to honour, as a group, all those from the West Cork region who fought in Dublin during the Easter Rising.

Aidan Desmond was a comprehensive winner over Michael Barry in the Munster Junior C final at Whitechurch on Saturday.

Spontaneous and warm tributes by councillors and management were yesterday paid to Irish Examiner journalist Donal Hickey at his last county council meeting after almost half a century.

A local council is reportedly moving slowly with its plans for a public lighting system suitable for a dark sky reserve to which star-gazers are attracted.

ANYBODY trying to keep hens, or ducks, will know how difficult it is to protect them from predators. Foxes have always been a threat to poultry but, in some areas, mink are now regarded with equal dread in the coop.

Ireland’s latest viral video sensation, charismatic Kerryman Eugene O’Sullivan, was born in 1925 — at least 70 years before the first mobile phones and PCs became popular in Irish households.

Hillwalking in Ireland is a joy but there is something particularly special about the south of Spain with its year-round clear skies and its easy access from Irish airports, writes Dan McCarthy

Dan McCarthy takes a trip down memory lane with a book that charts 101 items from our recent popular history from TV show Wanderly Wagon to the Aran jumper to the ‘I shot JR car sticker’    

Very few Irish destinations have had the dramatic history of Kinsale. Dan McCarthy looks at the history of the town, from the maritime to

LAST month, during a walking tour of Béthune in northern France, our guide recalled the work of a Cork woman, Kate McCarthy, who nursed wounded soldiers during both world wars. Her niece, Sr Breda McCarthy of the Loreto Convent in Bray, told me this extraordinary woman’s story.

The Normandy beach landings were deferred on the say-so of the Blacksod lighthouse keeper, and victory was assured, says Dan McCarthy

Final tallies from Killarney are in and the quota is likely to be 2,000.

Milford 0-17 Ballygarvan 1-12

Businesses have welcomed news that a strategic road on the Cork-Kerry border will not be closed during the height of the tourist season.

Here on Earth: A twin biography of the planet and the human race

It was edge of the seat stuff as Ballygarvan had to survive a stiff challenge from Barryroe in the fourth round of the Cork IHC at Cloughduv on Saturday, setting up a quarter-final meeting with Charleville.

In the course of putting this week’s report together, I had one man from Cork say, “The sun is shining, grass is growing and cattle are dear,” — which just about sums up the mid-June trade across the country.