WINDFARMS provide energy, may be environmentally-friendly and welcome — until they interfere with your television reception.

RTÉ has admitted it was “not making meaningful progress” in dealing with serious TV and radio reception problems caused by wind farms in Cork and Kerry.

A 30-YEAR-OLD man shot dead by his new neighbour had contacted gardaí in the days before his death, fearing trouble last Saturday when he went to erect a fence on land he’d bought from his killer’s family.

STUNNED locals were stuck for words and few could comprehend how or why a bitter, protracted dispute over land could spark a murder and a suicide in the close-knit community of Coolyhune on the Carlow/Kilkenny border.