A second District Court judge has excused himself from presiding over an alleged breach of copyright in a case involving MEP Seán Kelly and a Co Kerry photographer.

Some leading female media figures have been lined up to take part in a new festival which will celebrate women’s contribution to the media in Ireland.

Actor Michael Fassbender, brought up in Kerry, may play the life of a Killarney man who spearheaded Ireland’s first full-length feature film with sound.

Locations in Killarney where the first full-length “talkie” film in Ireland was made in the mid-1930s have been mapped out in a tourist trail.