All new burial grounds in Kerry are to be lawn-style, with no kerbing allowed around graves.

A new renewable energy strategy by Kerry County Council is causing deep divisions in the Inny Valley, near Waterville, a meeting has heard.

A call has been made for a ban on wind farms in scenic areas of Kerry and West Cork.

A MAJOR split has developed in Fianna Fáil in Kerry South with a county councillor presenting a challenge to former ceann comhairle and sitting TD John O’Donoghue.

THE Fine Gael party in Kerry South is expected to adopt a two-candidate strategy for the next election when it holds a convention in Killarney tonight.

WHEN a Fianna Fáil councillor of almost 20 years’ experience admits that the campaign is the “most difficult ever” for the party, the pressure is clearly on FF to remain the controlling party on Kerry County Council.

MEMBERS of Kerry County Council are continuing to disregard the advice of their senior planners by granting a growing number of planning applications for houses in scenic areas.

A YOUNG Kerry hurler may have to demolish the walls of a €180,000 house he started to build without planning permission in a scenic area.