Gardaí in south Kerry have ruled out foul play but are continuing to investigate the circumstances related to the "sudden deaths" of two people in the county. 

Bringing dogs onto small open boats can be extremely dangerous, a coroner has warned.

A coroner’s court has heard how hotels and nearby buildings were evacuated and guests rescued from bedrooms in the wake of an early-morning gas explosion at a Killarney town centre laundrette three years ago.

Verdicts of suicide were returned in four of the seven inquests held at the coroner’s court in Killarney on Wednesday.

The body of the 11-month-old baby found dead in a bedroom in his apartment in Killarney on Sunday, and whose death is at the centre of a Garda investigation, has been released back to his family.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service is to carry out a cull of lowland deer, in and around Killarney, amid an outcry about an increase in the number of deer and collisions with motorists.

A warning has been given of the risk of further road deaths, unless safety measures are improved on a short section of one of the country’s busiest tourist routes.

A coroner has appealed to young drivers to slow down, saying “a car is a dangerous weapon”.

Amorous stags chasing hinds pose dangers to road traffic during the annual deer mating season which is getting underway.

A 65-year-old pedestrian who was wearing dark clothes and had no torch or reflective gear died after being struck by a car, on February 6, an inquest was told.

An accident resulting in the death of a 59-year-old man while erecting shuttering on his farm earlier this year, was not preventable or foreseeable, a Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.

It’s more than a year since Donal Walsh died, but his message still resonates, says Donal Hickey.

Government officials have insisted plans to allow a "short-form" death certificate to be given to families whose loved one has died in difficult circumstances will not hide the reality of suicide and drug deaths from wider society.

A coroner, outspoken in his crusade for more openness about suicide, yesterday voiced his opposition to Government plans to introduce a shorter version of a death certificate which would not disclose the cause of death.

Traditionally, suicide has been swept under the carpet in this country.

The widower of a 47-year-old woman, killed in a traffic accident on a dangerous stretch of road which wild deer are known to cross, has appealed to the authorities for action to tackle the problem.

A counselling service in Co Kerry has reported a 33% jump in the number of people accessing its services and needing support in the past five years.

A coroner has called for warning signs to be erected at a notorious bend on the main road between Killarney and Tralee where three people died in two separate accidents in “exactly the same place.”

A woman was dead for up to four months in a house in Kenmare, Co Kerry, before anyone noticed, an inquest into her death in Killarney was told.

Some people are entering 2014 because of teenager Donal Walsh’s exhortation to live life to the maximum, a coroner has said.

The design of traffic islands on roads in Co Kerry may be changed to become more user-friendly, following the deaths of a motorist and a motorcyclist in separate accidents at such islands.

A 64-year-old mental health patient died after a choking on a sweet, an inquest was told yesterday.

An inquest heard yesterday of how a swim in the lakes of Killarney for two friends on a warm afternoon last summer ended in tragedy.

A Kerry teenager’s message of life will live on in Ireland’s first suicide resource centre.

HSE protocol was the reason a 25-stone ill woman, dressed only in a nightgown, was forced to wait two hours in torrential rain while emergency crew waited for back-up to carry her to the ambulance.

A coroner has said that the “plague” of suicides in Kerry had “considerably reduced” since the appeal by the late Donal Walsh to young people to think twice before doing so.

Gardaí questioning a 26-year-old man in connection with a double murder are hoping for a breakthrough in a case that has shocked the country.

Gardaí are trying to identify a woman who was found dead in a holiday home in Kenmare, Co Kerry, two weeks ago.

The Coroner for Co Kerry is praising the late teenager Donal Walsh who lost his fight with cancer last month.

It was the young people among the mourners that seemed most affected by the death of the inspirational and rugby-loving Dónal Walsh.

A coroner who frequently highlights the high level of suicide in the country believes appeals by the late Dónal Walsh to his peers not to take their lives will have a lasting impact.

A coroner has described as “a crying shame” the amount of State spending on suicide prevention.

Despite the attention focussed on the unnecessary death of Savita Halappanavar by coroner Dr Ciaran MacLoughlin’s revealing Galway inquest, the Ireland portrayed at South Kerry coroner Terence Casey’s quarterly court this week, where five out of six deaths considered were suicides, is a deeply disturbing and dysfunctional place.

A coroner has pleaded with young people to heed the words of the brave Kerry teenager Donal Walsh, who is battling terminal cancer, and think twice before taking their lives.

The rising suicide rate is being linked in part to the end of corporal punishment, the coroner for Kerry east and south Terence Casey said today.

A coroner who claimed people who die by suicide do not think about the hurt and sorrow they leave behind has been reported to the Justice Department for his comments.

His comments on suicide have caused controversy but coroner Terence Casey tells Deirdre Walsh we need to be more open

Posters displaying more than a dozen suicide prevention helpline numbers have been launched by South Kerry coroner Terence Casey.

A coroner yesterday called for stronger safety warnings about an area on Valentia Island where upwards of five people have drowned in recent years after falling from rocks into the sea.

The coroner for south Kerry yesterday said there is set to be a big increase in suicides in his area this year.

People who take their own lives do not think about the hurt and sorrow they leave behind, a coroner has said.