A Kerry-based charity is to build a €10m respite care centre for sick children near Tralee after winning a four-year battle for planning permission for the facility.

The parents of a three-year-old Kerry boy who has Batten disease have been told the pioneering surgery he had in New York last year is not going to be a cure.

IRISH race walker Robert Heffernan (Togher A.C) was yesterday on a flight home from the World Championships in Dageu following the sudden death of his mother, Maureen, at her Cork home.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD Kerry boy was undergoing brain surgery that may potentially save his life in a New York hospital last night.