The proprietor of a Kerry hotel which is set to close has cited speculation that the venue was to house asylum seekers as one of the reasons it has gone out of business.

Galway manufacturing group, C&F Tooling returned to profitability in 2014 after recording a pre-tax loss of €12.28m the previous year, according to new accounts.

To find out how a club with just 300 playing members will have five players on active duty in Sunday’s All-Ireland finals, go back to 1979.

A Kerry music producer has told the High Court he will not use the name of Riverdance or Riverdance Tribute Show in promotions planned for Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania in October and November.

An Irish dance show touring in Europe later this year will no longer be billed as a ‘Riverdance Tribute’ act.

Dance company Riverdance are seeking an injunction against a Co Kerry music promoter from using the famous show name in Eastern Europe.

Riverdance founders will tomorrow ask the High Court to restrain a music promoter from staging “illicit, unauthorised” Riverdance shows throughout Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

We read with concern your editorial (May 22) which suggests, following the publication of the Radiological Protection Institute’s (RPI) report on a “low risk” to Ireland from a UK new nuclear programme, now is the time to reconsider nuclear power in Ireland.

Pre-tax profits at Galway manufacturing group C&F Tooling fell 7% last year to €6.3m.

Demand for green energy solutions has helped boost pre-tax profits at Irish manufacturing group, C&F Tooling, almost threefold to €6.8 million in 2010.

MICHAEL CARR is a blue chip, dyed-in-the-wool Clarinbridge hurling man.

GAA President Christy Cooney has offered his condolences to the family of Patrick Dinsmore who collapsed and died while playing minor football for St. Peter's GAA Club in County Down last Sunday morning.

A teenage Gaelic footballer who collapsed and died during a match in Co Down was due to get his GCSE exam results tomorrow, his 17th birthday.

A teenage GAA player collapsed and died during a minor football match in Co Down last night.

LIMERICK wing-back Michael Carr has been ruled out of action for a number of weeks after dislocating his knee in Saturday night’s NHL Division 1 tie against Cork.

Donegal 0-21 Cavan 1-13

A leading Sinn Féin member of Dublin City Council has resigned his seat, the party confirmed tonight.

A 38-YEAR-OLD Kerryman who won an international bachelor competition is set to be a big hit with the girls.

Sinn Féin’s Caitriona Ruane topped the poll in South Down with a firm warning to the DUP to meet the March 26 deadline for power sharing.

More than 70 Catholic recruits have quit the Northern Ireland Police Service, it was revealed today.

UPWARDS of 50,000 people are expected to flock to Ballybunion, Co Kerry, for the week-long World Fleadh, which got underway yesterday.

Republicans in the dissident Real IRA today admitted firebombing British-owned stores near the border.

AROUND 50,000 people are expected to flock to Kerry this summer for a new seven-day international festival.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland has condemned the recent deportations of non-national students, especially their forced removal from schools.

Dissident republicans who sent a parcel bomb to the home of a nationalist politician will not stop police reforms from going ahead, it was claimed today.

TWO more SDLP councillors have received death threats, the party confirmed last night.

Two more SDLP councillors have received death threats, the party confirmed tonight.