It's a family affair for the final Late Late Show of the season as the billionaire Collison brothers, Healy-Raes and Laura Brennan's family join Ryan Tubridy tomorrow night.

Almost half of the candidates running in the Kerry local elections are sitting councillors, reports Anne Lucey.

Attempts by Kerry County Council to curb the height of new headstones in about 150 public graveyards are meeting with resistance.

A proposed development plan for parts of rural Kerry, focusing on tourism and on a peninsula area’s historical wealth, is firmly against rural housing.

Former Government minister John O’Donoghue has withdrawn his attempt to seek a nomination to contest the next local elections for Fianna Fáil in Kerry.

One-way systems are being introduced in Kerry for some of the country’s most crowded tourist routes.

The GAA is being urged to let nursing home residents watch matches for free.

Hedges are so overgrown in Dingle and South Kerry that the much-advertised Wild Atlantic Way views are being blacked out to road users and the mirrors of tourist buses and cars are regularly damaged, it has been claimed.

A county council is planning to slap a development charge on the construction of farmers’ sheds, for the first time ever.

Kerry County Council voted by majority to bring in a dress code for local politicians — and to push for this to be extended to the Dáil.

Today’s report about efforts by Kerry County Council to use the Sheen River to supply Kenmare with water describes in microcosm the problems around matching an ever-growing demand for water with finite resources.

A section of the main Ring of Kerry road at the Moll’s Gap N71 pass towards Kenmare was closed yesterday for two months to all traffic, including pedestrians and cyclists, to allow repairs to retaining walls, which are almost 200 years old.

No specific guidelines are available for solar energy farms in Irish planning but applications are being lodged in an abundance along Kerry, Cork and the west coast.

A major upgrade of the Kenmare Water Treatment plant will ensure safer water for the south Kerry town — but it will not solve a long-term problem of a new water source.

A row has erupted in Kerry after members of the Healy-Rae political dynasty were accused of “shamelessly” taking credit for the work of other councillors.

Kerry County Council has heard five separate motions calling for the Government not to “decongregate” 76 people, some of whom are profoundly disabled, from a much-loved community facility in Beaufort.

The Healy-Raes are defending their high attendance at funerals in Kerry, and also the so-called ‘bereavement packs’ they send to the families of deceased constituents.

The eldest daughter of the Kerry Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae has lost out in her bid to take over the chair of the municipal district of Killarney.

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

Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae has released a 2016 election song, which proclaims he is so busy covering the new huge constituency of Kerry” there is no time for tae”.

A dispute has erupted in Kerry about the location of the general election count — even before the date of a poll has been fixed.

Kerry’s roads are “more potholes than road” in many places, Kerry County Council has heard.

Offering incentives to use street-front buildings in Kerry towns as homes would bring “the pulse” back into rural towns as well as helping tackle the housing waiting list, local politicians have said.

Conflicting estimates of damage caused by a spate of gorse fires in Killarney National Park have been given by statutory bodies.

A greenway with the potential to be one of the world’s “most iconic” walking and cycling routes hangs in the balance, a county council meeting was told yesterday.

Regular flooding in parts of a south Kerry town is causing residents acute anxiety and lack of sleep, at times, it has been claimed.

Gardaí investigating the shooting dead of a two-year-old hen harrier in Co Kerry do not believe the bird was deliberately targeted.

A Kerry county councillor has failed to get the backing of chamber colleagues for a proposal to have St Patrick’s Day celebrations moved permanently to a Sunday.

A road in Kenmare, Co Kerry, is to be dedicated to ex-Fine Gael TD and county councillor Pat O’Connor-Scarteen, a native of the area.

Kerry County Council has decided, by a narrow vote, to lift a ban on the erection of telecommunications masts within 1km of residential buildings, including homes, schools, and hospitals.

Lands needed to complete a €4m greenway cycle route high over the Ring of Kerry are to be acquired by compulsory purchase order because grant funding will run out if the project is not completed by December 2016, councillors have been told.

A Kerry town’s new bypass road has been named in honour of a political rival of the late Jackie Healy-Rae.

Irish Water —"the Scarlet Pimpernel" of today — is being asked to appear at quarterly meetings of Kerry County Council, as the Government, particularly Fine Gael, was accused of "making a hames" of it all.

Uncontrolled street trading is causing "absolute mayhem" in a tourist town, it was claimed yesterday.

A perceived risk to the recently introduced white-tailed sea eagle is one of the main reasons by An Board Pleanála for turning down a proposed nine-turbine windfarm in theKerry-Cork border area near Kilgarvan.

Councillor Johnny Healy-Rae’s recent comments, in which he expressed the desire to slaughter every badger and deer in the country to, in his view, improve the health of the national herd-

The Kerry region, a jewel in the crown of Irish tourism, will be "devastated" by littering following the closure of a landfill site, it has been claimed.

Claims that protected, wild deer are carriers of TB, which affects cattle, have been rejected by the Department of Agriculture.

They sat calmly side by side, descendants of people who were opponents in a turbulent and bitter period in Irish history.