Fourth-generation politician and sitting councillor Anne McEllistrim has lost her bid for a seat in the Killarney electoral area.

A life will be lost if a second ambulance is not restored to a top tourist area, it has been claimed.

A brother of former Fianna Fáil cabinet minister John O’Donoghue is expected to step aside from the forthcoming local elections to make way for the return of the former minister to politics.

Former Kerry Fianna Fáil TD Tom McEllistrim last night took a key step towards relaunching his political career by winning a nomination to contest the forthcoming local elections for the party.

Thomas McEllistrim, the former Fianna Fáil TD for north Kerry, has said his sister Anne McEllistrim, the sitting Tralee area councillor, is to seek a nomination in the Killarney area — while he is hoping for a council seat in the Tralee electoral zone.

A former Fianna Fáil TD has denied any wrongdoing by using prepaid Oireachtas envelopes to send out notices of local party meetings.

Former ceann comhairle John O’Donoghue has dismissed reports that Kerry footballers are being targeted as candidates to run for Fianna Fáil in the new five-seater Kerry constituency.

A meeting of Fianna Fáil in Tralee last night saw former ceann comhairle John O’Donoghue elected to one of the key positions in the new all-county organisation.

Seán Haughey witnessed the end of his family’s political presence in Dublin going back some 54 years, while the Andrews brothers, Chris and Barry, both lost their seats in their respective constituencies.

A MEMBER of one of Kerry’s old political dynasties, outgoing FF TD Tom McEllistrim, lost his seat to a member of the Spring dynasty, Arthur John Spring in Kerry North/West Limerick.

FIANNA Fáil and Fine Gael could be standing together outside the GPO for the centenary of the Easter Rebellion in little over five years time, according to Leo Varadkar.

STILL wearing his overcoat and leaning forward on a chair in his somewhat chilly constituency office in Tralee town centre, battle-hardened TD Martin Ferris shakes his head and reveals that he has never before experienced a reaction quite like what he is encountering on the doorsteps.

THERE is considerable interest around the personalities in Kerry in the forthcoming election. Will John O’Donoghue get re-elected, will Michael Healy-Rae succeed his father, and will another Spring swap places with a McEllistrim?

THERE is considerable interest around the personalities in Kerry in the forthcoming election. Will John O’Donoghue get re-elected, will Michael Healy-Rae succeed his father, and will another Spring swap places with a McEllistrim?

KERRY Fianna Fáil TD Tom McEllistrim is back on the election campaign trail a little over an hour after being involved in a car crash which resulted in two people being brought to hospital.

POLITICIANS have lobbied for prisoners convicted of a range of serious crimes, including murder, drug-dealing and assault, documentation has shown.

Kit Ahern felt it would have been hypocritical of her to decline the invitation to enter politics given that she had spent so much of her time cajoling women into getting involved in politics.

KERRY Airport is set for major expansion, with a €8m investment needed to cater for at least a million passengers by 2011, it was learned yesterday.