Michael and Danny Healy-Rae’s resounding electoral success (30,000-plus votes) proves that all politics is local and dismissing them is to denigrate the people of Kerry, despite that county’s great diversity, writes Clodagh Finn

A summer school to commemorate “the father of modern economics”, Kerry-born banker Richard Cantillon, is to take place in his home town of Ballyheigue this summer.

A summer school to commemorate “the father of modern economics”, Kerry-born banker Richard Cantillon, is to take place in his home town of Ballyheigue this summer.