Kerry and Cork county councillors are demanding the HSE and Health Minister Simon Harris bail out the Irish Community Rapid Response air ambulance.

A date has been set for the late night assault case involving the newly elected Kerry County Councillor Jackie Healy-Rae, who is alleged to have assaulted a 30-year-old English visitor to Kenmare, causing harm, in December 2017.

Sinn Féin’s Toireasa Ferris has graciously bowed out of the European election race in the South constituency this evening.

A ROW has broken out in the Labour party over the organisation of a convention next weekend to select a candidate to contest a seat in the South in next year’s European elections.