Fine Gael and Labour have held tentative talks on a voting pact for the Seanad elections.

The eldest daughter of Danny Healy-Rae has been co-opted onto Kerry County Council in a seat vacated by her father on his election to Dáil Éireann.

A pact between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour yesterday ensured the election of FG Cllr Pat McCarthy as chairman of Kerry County Council.

Fine Gael has decided to hold a convention to select general election candidates in the Kerry constituency earlier than planned.

Two of the largest towns in Kerry are among six across the country which still have no access to natural gas, the Government has confirmed.

Students of today have to be prepared for jobs that have not yet been conceived, an awards ceremony was told.

Despite warnings from senior management, members of Kerry County Council yesterday unanimously voted to include what are claimed to be two long-established rights-of-way in a county development plan.

Over €2m a year is being paid out each year as the result of compensation claims against local authorities in Kerry.

Irish Water has finally agreed to provide drinking water to residents of a housing estate where excess levels of lead were found in the public supply.

Even the sky in Kerry was dressed in gold late yesterday as the victorious All-Ireland senior and minor footballers teams’ train pulled into Casement station in Tralee.

The risk of drinking water being polluted by septic tanks is threatening the development of one-off housing in Co Kerry.

A disused food factory site is to become an attractive public market area in the centre of Tralee, Co Kerry.

The Government remained adamant last night a €1bn natural gas terminal had not been stalled by developers Shannon LNG.

Kerry County Council is to "endeavour" to reduce the local property tax, but only if its financial position next year allows.

Upwards of 300 people yesterday protested outside a meeting of Kerry County Council over plans to set up local community development committees to replace county development boards.

The Fine Gael mayor of Tralee, who claimed he was discriminated against because of a gender quota directive from the party in the selection of candidates for the local elections, yesterday announced his resignation from the party.

A “laughing stock" of a rule which bans telecommunications masts from being erected within 1km of houses and other residential buildings in Kerry is to be retained.

It will be at least a week before Kerry County Council has carried out full assessment of the damage, as well as an estimate of the cost of repairs and long-term work required to protect the county’s vulnerable coastline.

Traditional visitor haven Kerry is faced with a major challenge to reach the top of the tourism ratings.

A county development plan for Kerry will be supportive of small indigenous industries, it was stated yesterday.

A Kerry politician claims he is the victim of “discrimination” after he was dropped as a candidate for next year’s local elections.

A large number of sub-contractors are in danger of going to the wall because of delays in payments due to them by a major road construction company, it was claimed yesterday.

Land earmarked for industry by the IDA is to be leased for grazing to farmers.

A motion passed by Kerry County Council aimed at permitting people to drink and drive has been criticised today for dragging the country back to "darker days".

A Fine Gael councillor has described as “unacceptable” the failure of the Government to bring a 500-plus jobs project to fruition.

A top-level Kerry delegation has been heartened by Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s support for a €500m gas terminal proposed for the Shannon Estuary, amid serious concerns it would not proceed.

A complaint has been lodged with the Oireachtas Ethics Committee against a Kerry TD for urging Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte to intervene with the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) in relation to a proposed €500m project for the Shannon Estuary.

MANY visitors to the Ring of Kerry are missing out on some of its greatest attractions by not deviating from better-known routes, a local councillor have claimed.

KERRY County Council faces loan repayments of €1.2 million for land bought at upwards of €230,000 per acre during the boom, most of which is no longer needed.

COUNCILLORS in the Tralee electoral area are asking the Government to ensure that local authorities in Kerry be allowed to purchase sites and houses directly from NAMA and to be allowed avail of any loan schemes attached to the body.

FEARS are increasing that a long-awaited €137 million bypass road for Kerry’s county town due to start next year will fall victim to government cutbacks.

POLITICAL parties and independents in Kerry County Council yesterday united to campaign for the retention of airline services to Dublin.

ONE of Kerry’s most popular seaside resorts will see no development in the next five years, it was claimed yesterday.

LAST-MINUTE pledges of up to €200,000 from local and national businesses helped rescue the crisis-ridden Rose of Tralee Festival yesterday.

THE troubled Jeanie Johnston company yesterday welcomed a full review ordered by Marine Minister Dermot Ahern into the spending of 10m euro of taxpayers' money on the 16m euro project.