Today is providing a mixed bag on the weather front with many parts of Leinster and Ulster bathed in sunshine but its umbrellas at the ready for southern and western counties.

Plans for an airstrip for a single-engine light aircraft in a field outside Tralee have been appealed to Bord Pleanála by locals who say their cows would be disturbed.

The heatwave is not over yet, with temperatures expected to hit 30C again later this week.

Charity worker, businessman and a star of RTÉ’s Secret Millionaire show, Jim Breen, has appeared in court in Killarney on a drink-driving charge.

There’s a distinctive smell that signals the opening day of Puck Fair — a mix of horse manure, chips, and cigarette smoke — although this year some smokers have traded their cigarettes for vaping.

A case by two sisters who alleged they were discriminated against in a well-known pub and restaurant in Ardfert, Co Kerry, because they were Travellers, was dismissed yesterday after a hearing at Killarney District Court.

Gardaí are hunting for a suspected drink driver after they found an empty vodka bottle in a car which was left abandoned after it struck a wall.

If recent games are anything to go by, then Micheál Burns will be the first Crokes sub called down from the stand tomorrow. Jordan Kiely will follow shortly after, with Tony Brosnan not far behind.

Friday, May 6

“Cockle Beach” is the kind of name to conjure up images of large groups of women in shawls and hardy men in peaked caps, heavy linen shirts and dark waistcoats gathering shellfish along the seashore on a neap tide.

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Treasure maps rarely yield results — but this one drawn by Roger Casement 100 years ago appear to have yielded gold for the British authorities.

The Kerry Museum has purchased, at auction, a map drawn by Roger Casement, showing where he reputedly buried gold and silver coins, and other items, near Banna Strand, before he was arrested on Good Friday in 1916.

Eir has announced the locations of about 100,000 homes in up to 200 areas that will receive high-speed broadband in the year ahead.

Kerry County Council is seeking a reassessment of key sections of the national road network in the county after some of its main roads were closed due to flooding in December, a meeting in Tralee has heard.

Duarigle Darwin, winner of the Ballyarthur Stakes at Fermoy and Grange meeting at the beginning of the season, collected the all-age Agnes O’Brien Cup at Blarney, yesterday after being declared the winner when Young Dilemma was withdrawn from the decider.

The chairman of a tourism organisation has been ferrying around some unusual visitors since they arrived in Ireland.

A judge said he was not going to penalise a person for walking on a country road at night — when no public transport was available — in a civil case in which a tipsy pedestrian sued a hackney driver for negligence after being struck by a wing mirror of the car near Ardfert village.

Three members of a family who sued another member arising out of a collision “in a minor manner with a wall, “ succeeded in their claims at the Circuit Civil Court in Tralee yesterday and were awarded general damages decrees totalling €9,500 for minor injuries

Heroin was “constantly” available in Cork prison a man accused of trespass and theft at a Kerry garda station last week, told a court yesterday.

Criminals targeting a rural village have hit a "new low" — by breaking into a local Garda station.

A nephew of a 73-year-old shopkeeper, whose premises has been raided three times in the last two months, yesterday pleaded for the return of gardaí to rural areas.

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Two men are due in court in Kerry this afternoon charged in connection with the seizure yesterday of drugs and a firearm in the county.

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Homes and businesses without landline phones could be waiting for several weeks more for restoration of service, Eircom said yesterday.

The HSE has responded to criticism after an ambulance took 43 minutes to reach the scene of an accident in Co Kerry.

A family who received one of Ireland’s biggest ever medical negligence pay outs after a decade-long battle with the HSE have called for a radical overhaul of how injured patients are treated by the system.

She ought to have known better, but Queen Victoria was “alarmed’’ when, surprise, surprise, it rained during her visit to Killarney.

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GAA players charged with drug offences will be banned from playing with their club or county until the outcome of their case, under strict new guidelines.

A man in his 20s has been killed in a road crash in Co Kerry.

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Thomas McEllistrim, the former Fianna Fáil TD for north Kerry, has said his sister Anne McEllistrim, the sitting Tralee area councillor, is to seek a nomination in the Killarney area — while he is hoping for a council seat in the Tralee electoral zone.

This July may have been the hottest on record for most of the country — but the torrential rain towards the end of the month still managed to bump up rainfall totals to above average for some parts.

July was the hottest on record in many parts of the country.