Rachael Blackmore recorded her first success as a professional when getting 11-2 chance Most Honourable home in front by the narrowest of margins in the Woodrooff Handicap Hurdle last night at Clonmel track.

A community council has restored a once-derelict cottage which was the birthplace of the first patron of the GAA, Archbishop Thomas William Croke, and plans to turn it into a museum.

Having ended last season with 50 domestic winners to his credit, Bryan Cooper has started the new campaign in good form and doubled-up on board Horendus Hulabaloo in Tipperary last night.

IT kicked off with the germ of an idea from Kieran Donaghy — a big American sports fan — who wanted a visible keepsake of an All-Ireland winning season with Kerry he’ll never forget.

A 38-year-old author last night scooped the richest literary award confined to Irish writers for her first novel.

Kerry Foods is to continue with the restructuring programme that delivered a sales uplift at the end of 2013 and into 2014 — despite “highly competitive” consumer markets in the UK and Ireland.

A site donated to Tralee Town Council by Kerry Group could be a catalyst for the regeneration of the centre of the town.

The Kerry County Board have revealed their plans to build a GAA Centre of Excellence and associated facilities, with sponsors Kerry Group contributing €1 million to the project.

Kerry Group are to provide €1million in funding for Kerry GAA’s new €5.8million centre of excellence.

UCC hosted 350 delegates from all over Europe looking to draft the ‘Cork Declaration’ which will be used to help design the legislative process for the EU’s next research and development programme, Horizon 2020.

A 37-year-old writer whose publishing deal saved him from unemployment last night scooped a €15,000 literary prize.

BROADCASTER Terry Wogan can be heard on a radio advertisement these days extolling the virtues of using Shannon Airport as a departure and arrivals point for travellers out of and into the West of Ireland.

Eighty jobs are to come on stream in Kildare before Christmas as a result of Kerry Group's €100m investment in Naas.

Kerry Group has signed a partnership deal with Beingmate of China to supply dairy ingredients for infant nutrition applications in China.

Novelist Christine Dwyer Hickey won the top prize of €15,000 for her latest work, The Cold Eye of Heaven, at the 41st Listowel Writers’ Week, last night.

Kerry Ingredients & Flavours has freed up production capacity in its Asian ingredients facilities with the opening of an emulsifier plant in Zwindrecht, the Netherlands.

Kerry Foods has set the end of July as the final decision date for the possible closure of its cooked meats and home-baked goods factory in Durham, England.

Dairy regions planning to take a super-levy gamble based on an assumption that Kerry would keep its milk output low this year will have to revise their plans, according to ICMSA dairy chairman Pat McCormack.

PHARMA ingredients may represent just 4% of Kerry Group’s business, but they can play a useful role in the company’s global expansion strategy, according to an equity report by Davy stockbrokers.

KERRY Group has given firm commitments on milk price and any capital investments required for future processing at strategy meetings with farmer groups in Dublin yesterday.

THE start-up business programme, Endeavour, has announced the 14 companies that have been selected to complete its 2011 start-up programme.

MORE than 1,600 Kerry Co-op shareholders yesterday agreed by an 80% majority to changes which will net them a €290 million windfall in a share exchange with Kerry Group.

INNOVATION and new products in every sector from food ingredients, bakery, soft drinks and syrups were central to the 2010 sales growth of 9.7% to €5 billion unveiled by Kerry Group.

Flintshire: A frozen foods factory owned by Kerry Group in Flintshire is to close at the end of April with the loss of 318 jobs.

COUNTY Kerry will once again host the first major stage race of the Irish Cycle racing calendar in 2011 when the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan takes place over the Easter Weekend from Good Friday, April 22 to Easter Monday April 25.

KERRY Group’s executive directors enjoyed remuneration increases of 15% to 18% on the back of a strong year’s performance the annual report, posted out to shareholders yesterday, reveals.

DAIRYGOLD in association with Pegus Horse Feed have launched their point-to-point series of qualifier races and final for the 2009/2010 season.

THE route for the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan is expected to be finalised next week but the big news is the Easter Saturday stage will retain its traditional toughness.

KERRY GAA officials have agreed a three-year extension for sponsorship of the county’s teams with Kerry Group.

GPs in the catchment area of Sligo General Hospital will disregard notices from the Health Service Executive to send cancer patients to one of the eight designated centres, local GPs' representative Dr Frank Hayes said today.

A BACON factory that once employed upwards of 350 people in Tralee, Co Kerry, is to close at the end of the year with the loss of its remaining 25 jobs.

IRELAND’S largest food company, Kerry Group, has sold its primary poultry processing operations in Britain and Ireland in a drive to improve margins.

A MAJOR collection of work by sculptor Seamus Murphy was unveiled yesterday by the country’s newest national cultural institution.

Some food products manufactured by a subsidiary of Kerry Group have been recalled in England, because of possible contamination.

WRITER Sebastian Barry has won this year’s €10,000 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for his novel A Long Long Way, it was announced at the opening of Listowel Writers’ Week yesterday evening.

The lives of a number of people have been severely affected by an ex-Garda Special Branch member who caused death and serious injury to others while drink driving, an inquest has heard.

A retired member of the Garda Special Branch has been jailed for five years and disqualified from driving for 15 years for drunk driving causing death and serious injury.

A retired Garda detective who knocked down two teenage girls and killed a 71-year-old man while drink-driving has no memory of the events, a court heard today.

A retired member of the Garda Special Branch has been remanded for sentence for drunk driving causing death and for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.