Plans to relocate Kerry’s county courthouse from Tralee town centre to a site on the grounds of an army barracks are being resisted by the legal profession.

The family at the centre of the Kerry babies case believes tissue samples retained from one of the dead infants could dispel lingering doubts over their innocence in the child’s death.

A 40-year-old man has appeared in a court in Kerry, charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a child – offences , some of which, according to the judge, the court had never come across before.

A number of speeding summonses issued on foot of unpaid fixed penalty notices were dismissed at Tralee District Court yesterday because common placenames in Co Kerry were misspelled or in some cases could not be aligned to any existing place.

Theft was “not a very serious matter — in Romania”, a defence solicitor claimed at a district court in Kerry yesterday during an application to seek bail for his 25-year-old client.

A 21-year-old Tralee woman, who was involved in a “late-night cat-fight”, had used her shoe like a retracted claw, Tralee District Court was told yesterday.

A 23-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with an alleged stabbing of a father and son in Tralee shortly before 6am last Tuesday.

Two brothers from Rathkeale, Co Limerick, who gardaí claim “target the elderly” in Kerry, appeared before a sitting of Tralee District Court yesterday.

The solicitor who represented the woman at the centre of the Kerry Babies case has said that there is no need to exhume the bodies of the babies for DNA analysis.

A man has been charged with possession of €28,000 worth of “stolen diamond rings,” following a chase by four off-duty marathon-running detectives though Tralee town.

A man has been warned he must keep his dogs under control or risk losing them after a complaint by a neighbour of “excessive barking”.

A man has been warned he must keep his dogs under control or risk losing them after a complaint by a neighbour of “excessive barking”.

A number of people appeared at Tralee District Court yesterday on charges relating to running a brothel near the local courthouse.

MEMBERS of the armed Garda Regional Response Unit were still on duty in the St Martin’s Park area of Tralee yesterday, following a further outbreak of violence in a continuing feud between two Traveller families.

A CASE against the driver of a lorryload of pigs involved in a bridge collapse in north Kerry earlier this year was again adjourned at Listowel District Court, yesterday.

THE woman at the centre of the Kerry Babies Tribunal more than 20 years ago has pleaded with promoters planning to make two films about the controversy to desist.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man was last night charged with the manslaughter of his 31-year-old sister, a married mother of three, last week.

A TOWN council is having second thoughts on whether it should continue with a so-called name-and-shame policy, aimed at reducing the number of compensation claims against it.