Former Tánaiste and senior counsel Michael McDowell is to represent a Kerry County Council candidate who is challenging the results of the last local elections in a case which has the potential to affect all future elections, it has been confirmed.

A local election candidate who disputed a county council result in Kerry is to have his case heard by five judges of the Supreme Court, as a matter of urgency in the first appeal of its kind in the history of the State.

County Council officials stood on platforms so they could peer over a high metal fence to see if a small-time businessman they were pursuing through the courts was complying with planning on a remote section of the Ring of Kerry, a court in Killarney was told yesterday.

Angry residents and business owners in an East Cork town have written to Irish Water demanding it "admit responsibility" and offer compensation for flooding that devastated premises twice within 24 hours.

A full transcript of the two-day petition to hold an election recount in the Listowel area has been ordered as the legal team for former Fianna Fáil senator Dan Kiely said they were "actively considering" an appeal to the Supreme Court.

A local election candidate has gone to court to have the result of the Listowel Electoral area declared invalid and to have a full recount.

Rural people were being “intimidated” by townspeople moving into the countryside, a woman claimed at the Circuit Civil Court in Tralee yesterday during a dispute over a right of way and the opening and closing of gates at the edge of the Killarney National Park.

A 42-year-old woman who is several months pregnant and is due a baby shortly after Christmas has lost her attempt not to be evicted from her council house in a village in Co Kerry.

The threat by a judge to visit a former waste transfer station had done more to have the site cleaned up than six years of court actions by the council and residents during which the defendant had “dragged his feet”.

The charity for the prevention of self-harm and suicide, Pieta House, is to launch a nationwide campaign in a bid to reduce the level of male suicide.

A campaign aiming to collect 50,000 items of clothing to prove that Waterford “gives a shirt” about its threatened city status is gaining pace.

CARRYING 160 years of Queenstown/Cobh history, the Convent of Mercy property in one of the very best viewing perches in Cork harbour has been put up publicly for sale.

OOMPA LUMPA, owned in partnership by well known English punter Harry Finlay and Skibbereen’s Denis O'Driscoll, landed the Rakes Of Mallow all-aged stake when coming from behind to take the turn by two lengths from Run Like Baros at a very well run meeting at Ballymagooly yesterday.