Wooden sculptures in Killarney National Park that were hacked at by vandals at the weekend have been restored almost to their former glory, but questions have been raised about the mindset of anyone would could target the pieces.

One of the almost universally accepted consequences of climate change is rising sea levels. This reality threatens homes, farms, towns and large cities.

While a hopeful start has already been made in providing such lanes here, we still have a long way to go to catch up with the Scandinavians.

Victoria White (Irish Examiner, May 23) on the progressive diminution of the powers of local government resonates very strongly with me.

Traffic infrastructure in Killarney has fallen far behind the “industry-led” tourism business and chronic congestion is now threatening the tourism potential of the entire south-west region, a delegation from the town’s business and hotel organisations has told a council meeting.

The Cork fish stall which achieved international fame with two British royal visits and as a location for the hit TV show The Young Offenders was the centre of attention yesterday at the High Court where a woman sued for compensation as a result of a fall on the public walkway outside the stall.

Fears have again been expressed about the safety of the foundations of St Mary’s Cathedral in Killarney due to a build-up of silt in the Kerry town’s River Deenagh.

Gardaí in Killarney are to investigate the behaviour of some street entertainers after councillors complained the public were being insulted, foul language was being used to tourists, and some buskers simply “lowered the tone”.

All householders will be asked to produce written proof of using an authorised waste service under bylaws to go before the public in Kerry.

An English-language teacher who smashed into a wall while doing a bear-crawl at a gym class settled her action for compensation from the fitness centre yesterday.

Homeowners in Kerry with private drinking water wells have been warned to check their groundwater for potentially lethal radon gas.

Famed for its lakes and high peaks, scenic Kerry county has an unwanted mountain — of litter. Over 220 tonnes of general litter and household waste was fly-tipped on roadsides, and at bottle banks, in the country’s top tourist county last year.

The ESB and the woman who owns the oldest inhabited castle in Ireland settled their differences outside the High Court yesterday.

A High Court judge warned the owner of the oldest inhabited castle in Ireland she was using something akin to “mental reservation”, identified by the commission into the Dublin Archdioceses, in her evidence against the ESB.

A local authority has expressed a “strategic interest” in acquiring a vacant HSE-owned hospital.

A Cork Anti-Austerity Alliance councillor settled her compensation case yesterday for an injury while working as a home help.

A ‘connection’ between a busy bus station and an award-winning historic railway station is a bridge too far for Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann.

A further push to secure an internationally-based biosphere status for Kerry, and Killarney in particular, continues to face objections from a conservation organisation.

Manhole covers in Killarney are vibrating, a council meeting has heard.

The outflow from a main stream channelling treated waste water into one of Killarney’s famed lakes has been found to be “of less than good quality”.

The manner in which Irish people have embraced recycling is a notable environmental success story, writes Donal Hickey

Technology will be central to a five-year plan adopted in Kerry to target “the persistent” problem of litter with smart phone apps, mobile cameras and CCTV all being deployed to stop illegal dumping.

A 67-year-old sheep farmer, who produced a knife during a road rage incident, has been ordered to pay €100,000 to the 61-year-old victim in what the High Court judge called an act of inexplicable savagery.

The GAA top brass in Kerry has come under fire for not organising a homecoming for the Kerry minor team after they clinched three All-Ireland titles in a row.

Killarney’s seven-year wait for a small theatre and performance venue may be close to a curtain call.

An award of €285,000 compensation has been made to a teenager for a serious injury to his left hand from an accident involving a digger on the family farm when he was 13.

A soccer player sued Adidas claiming the blades on Predator Plus boots left him with visible scars on his head after he was kicked during an U-14 game.

If you can’t beat the pervasive Japanese knotweed, eat it. That was one of the solutions put forward at a meeting of Kerry County Council, which heard parts of the Kingdom are being overrun by the invasive species.

Two local men are hoping to put the Kerry village of Sneem on the map for its food speciality.

The wreckage at the scene of a fatal three-car crash was the worst a forensic engineer had ever seen in an urban area, he told the High Court in Limerick yesterday.

A Limerick man who was jailed for dangerous driving causing the death of a 19-year-old woman claimed yesterday he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

Kerry has a higher dependency on tourism than any other county in the State, according to a newly-released report.

The €40,000 award of damages to hill walker Teresa Wall following a fall on the Wicklow Way is to be challenged in the High Court. Appeal papers are to be lodged within a matter of days, it was confirmed yesterday.

It may have been raining cats and dogs yesterday in Killarney amid howling winds — but it was shelter from the summer sun that worried a meeting of the local council.

The Department of the Environment and Local Government is to carry out a review of its 2014 reform of local government.

I am intrigued that Alison O’Connor’s article bemoaning the defeat of so many pro-abortion candidates was accompanied by a photograph of the late Savita Halappanavar.

More than 60,000 tonnes of litter is expected to be collected from Kerry roadsides this year, in what some councillors warned was a losing battle with litter louts in a top tourist county.

Nine Kerry towns and villages will soon be without a GP, and towns which have managed to restore doctor services are doing so under sharing arrangements.

How interesting it is to note in yesterday’s Irish Examiner (January 18) that Paul Bradford and Lucinda Creighton rue the abolition of town councils.