The Royal Cork Yacht Club has confirmed a number of changes to the biennial Volvo Cork Week, to be held again next July.

Gardaí were forced to climb scaffolding to the top of a partially constructed four-storey building in Killarney town centre to rescue a drunken man who was throwing empty buckets down at revellers in the early hours of the rally weekend.

“Tis a great little country” a judge remarked after being told a man with over 100 convictions who was found boarding a train in Killarney for Banteer in Co Cork with a new bike he had just stolen from a shop in the Kerry town’s High Street would be able to go back home on the train on a free travel pass.

A teenage fisherman from Valentia Island, accused of an assault, has been ordered by a court to stay “completely out” of neighbouring Kerry town Cahirciveen until the DPP gives a direction in the matter.

A solicitor conceded there was a “certain amount of misdirected religious zeal” when prayer meetings and counselling led to the harassment of a female American preacher by a Kerry woman.

A man with 102 previous convictions — 29 of which were for theft — was caught boarding a train in Killarney with a €500 bicycle he had earlier taken from a cycle shop, along with two jumpers from a shop near the railway station, Killarney District Court was told.

A radiologist who told the court she was an insomniac appeared at Tralee District Court on 47 summonses in relation to forged sleeping tablet prescriptions.

A Romanian woman who pulled out bundles of €50 notes to peel off €100 towards securing her release on bail, was ordered by a judge to “hand the whole lot over, and the rest”, referring to sterling that she had separated from her euros and placed inside her blouse in the court.

A man who has at least 93 previous convictions was sentenced to seven months in jail at Tralee District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to stealing cash from a Killarney shop.

The Irish Naval Service set sail yesterday to help launch one of the country’s top international regattas.

Gardaí fear that training for the next batch of Garda recruits — the first in five years — will be done “on the cheap”.

Tipperary Forestry Services Ltd. (formerly Kinsella & Associates) was established in 1993 by Jim Kinsella.

RACING at the Royal Cork drew to a close with the culmination of the CH Marine Winter League.

WHAT a difference a few hours can make to winter sailing.

RACE 3 of the CH Marine Winter League at RCYC got underway on a misty morning, with a light southerly breeze in stark contrast to last week’s heavy winds.

THERE was no doubt it was November as Jack Frost appeared for the first race of the CH Marine winter league at RCYC.

THE new drink-driving laws that come into force today have been branded a major blow for rural Ireland, which will lead to the closure of up to half the pubs in the country.

AS ROAD deaths in Kerry continue to rise against the national trend, a Listowel woman, whose brother died in a car crash, has called for mandatory driving awareness classes in schools.

SLOW down — that’s the message to drivers on Kerry roads during this June bank holiday weekend.

AN estimated 12,000 people flocked to The Beaches in Bantry for the annual agricultural show last Sunday.

A TOTAL of 21 people died in road accidents in Kerry in 2006, the highest number since 1995, when the toll was 22.