A strict curfew has been placed on a one-legged man in Tralee accused of assault causing harm.

The senior garda officer spearheading an investigation into the deaths of a father and daughter in a house fire has criticised local people for spreading unfounded rumours about the case.

A five-year-old boy on a weekend break with his parents and younger sibling in Killarney, Co Kerry, died after getting into difficulties in a hotel swimming pool on the morning he was due to go back to Dublin, the inquest into his death heard yesterday in Tralee.

Drivers, especially ‘boy racers’, who modify their cars, should notify their insurance companies.

A senior garda has warned of the impact “massive” Garda retirements will have on policing in Tralee.

Shops, telephone kiosks and cars are all being targeted by thieves in Tralee, the town’s joint policing committee has heard.

THE head of a support group for victims has praised a garda-led pilot scheme in which young offenders before the courts are dealt with by specially trained gardaí liaising with social workers.

USE of the new Garda telecommunications system, Tetra, led to the fast apprehension of three men following an attempted raid on an ATM, in Castleisland, in Co Kerry, early on Saturday.

A CO Limerick publican was last night recovering from a horror attack in which he was forced at gunpoint to torch his €60,000 2008 Audi coupe after he was abducted from his home in Abbeyfeale.

AN ELDERLY Co Limerick priest did not perish in an arson attack early yesterday because he was afraid to stay overnight in his parochial residence after a previous night of terror.

THE need to reopen a sexual assault treatment unit in Tralee has been highlighted by recent alleged sex attacks in Kerry.

MEMBERS of an Oireachtas committee have criticised insurance brokers who reduced quotes only after clients informed them they had found a cheaper price elsewhere.

Post mortem examinations were being carried out today on the bodies of three young west Belfast men who died after taking what was thought to be a lethal cocktail of drink and drugs.

People who attended a party in nationalist west Belfast and took drugs were tonight being urged to seek urgent medical attention following the deaths of three young men.

The three men who are believed to have died as a result of taking dangerous drugs at a Belfast party have been named.