John Daly recalls the impact on a corner of Co Kerry fifty years ago when Hollywood arrived in the shape of ‘Ryan’s Daughter’

Ryan’s Daughter is being celebrated in Kerry this weekend, but what impact did the classic epic have on the poor, little-visited region where it was made, asks Donal Hickey.

The West Cork man who claimed that gardaí framed him in a big drugs case was jailed for 14 years today after a jury found him guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

A fifteen-year prison sentence was imposed today on a West Cork drug dealer who tried to hoodwink a jury into believing that the gardaí had set him up.