SKIPPER Tom Sheehy steered the MV Lady Laura towards Fungi, the world’s best-known, free-living dolphin, in Dingle Harbour.

The South-West is experiencing a huge spike in both the fly and the midge populations with warnings the current warm humid conditions are providing ideal breeding conditions for biting insects in the region.

A PROPERTY developer who has lodged a complaint against three senior county council officials has insisted it is not acceptable for members of the same local authority to conduct an internal investigation.

CAMERAS secretly placed at illegal dumping blackspots in Kerry are already catching culprits in the act.

KERRY has about 7,000 acres with a residential zoning and councillors, who so freely zoned land during the years of the construction boom, are now faced with the daunting task of “dezoning”.

A NEW retail complex in Castleisland would help stem the “haemorrhage” of shoppers from the area to neighbouring Tralee, it has been claimed.

A RURAL dwellers’ campaign group is in dispute with council engineers over septic tanks.

THE way was cleared yesterday for a sports interpretive centre-cum-residential development by Kerry football legend Páidi Ó Sé on his property in Ard Bhothair, Ventry.

A SENIOR Kerry County Council engineer yesterday rejected a claim of “collusion” between the council and the promoters of a planned cafe on the Great Blasket Island.

A MOVE to allow some cash-strapped Kerry golf clubs to build holiday homes on courses has been stymied by the local authority.

ABOUT 60 people yesterday mounted a protest outside a Kerry County Council meeting in Tralee, against what they claimed were over-restrictive planning policies in rural areas.

A WARNING was yesterday sounded that too much land is being rezoned for housing in some of Kerry’s picture postcard tourist areas, which do not have adequate services to support additional development.

CONCERNS were raised yesterday about health and safety aspects of a €400 million gas terminal to be built on a site between Tarbert and Ballylongford, on the Kerry bank of the Shannon Estuary.

SENIOR officials on Kerry County Council have claimed that a deferral system for planning applications is being abused.

THE population of villages in north Kerry will continue to fall unless essential services, including sewage schemes, are provided, it was warned yesterday.

THERE are fears that An Daingean sewage treatment plant may not be able to cope with demands when the population grows hugely during the tourist season.

MEMBERS of Kerry County Council are expected to do a U-turn on a controversial rezoning decision in one of Killarney’s prime tourism areas.

DESPITE strong warnings from county manager Martin Riordan and senior planning officials, councillors in Kerry are continuing to rezone an excess amount of land for housing, planners have claimed.

CAPE Verde Development, the Cork-based company that focuses on holiday developments on the Cape Verde islands off the west coast of Africa, has begun work on a €2 billion golf and leisure resort on the islands.

THE views of an Oxford University professor and a county manager have been ignored by Kerry councillors, who have agreed to rezone historic demesne lands for residential purposes.

THE views of an Oxford University professor and the county manager have been ignored by Kerry councillors, who have agreed to rezone historic demesne lands for residential purposes.

WITH a general election looming, a warning has been given of a rush to rezone land for housing in Kerry.

WITH a general election looming, a warning has been given of a rush to rezone land for housing in Kerry.

A DINGLE lobby group has called on Environment Minister Dick Roche to overturn decisions by Kerry County Council to rezone lands.

MEMBERS of Kerry County Council are continuing to ignore their county manager and senior planners by voting for the rezoning of land in An Daingean, Castlegregory and Killorglin.

DESPITE warnings from a top official that Dingle is ‘vastly over-zoned’ for housing, local councillors have voted to rezone more land for holiday homes.

THE high number of planning permissions granted in Kerry, in just over two years, rebuts the frequently made claim that planning is difficult to get in the county, a senior planning official has said.

THE high number of planning permissions granted in Kerry, in just over two years, rebuts the frequently made claim that planning is difficult to get in the county, a senior planning official maintained yesterday.

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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.