Faced with another summer of congestion in Killarney, local representatives as well as the town’s jarveys are coming up with solutions.

Ian Bailey told the High Court how he was visited in his home by a detective superintendent in January 1997 who told him he thought the Englishman knew more about the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier than he was "letting on".

It’s not so much paint your wagon as cover your wagon these days in Killarney, in a bid to respond to the town’s monsoon conditions over consecutive summers.

MIKE FRANK RUSSELL, still boyish after all these years, continues to manage a startled look when faced with a tape recorder.