When Tomás Mac an tSaoir came through the arrival gates of Dublin airport yesterday, his only visible signs of injury were some small plasters on his feet.

A Cork company is bringing energy solutions to the Orkney Islands, writes Trish Dromey.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has reported that six Closure Orders and one Improvement Order were served on food businesses during the month of April.

The widow of a 70-year-old man who died two months after he fell down steps at a Co Kerry beach has settled her High Court action.

A self-styled adventure junkie will have to avoid bandits and lions and endure searing desert heat on an epic 12,000km solo bike tour through Africa.

The Kerry villages Ballyferriter, Portmagee, Ballinskelligs and Valentia Island are celebrating all things Star Wars this weekend with an abundance of Star Wars themed events.

Skellig Michael will remain closed to visitors for at least another three weeks, meaning the island made famous by Star Wars could be facing its shortest-ever tourist season.

Missing out on Ed Sheeran in Páirc Uí Chaoimh? Not to worry, Ciara McDonnell has plenty of options for the May bank holiday weekend.

When the drive to go west hit Europe in the 19th century, it was not uncommon for fathers to cross the ocean ahead of their wives and children in search of work and a place to live.

Ceann Sibéal is seeing stars, writes Kevin Markham

Anyone growing up in the rugged splendour of the Dingle Peninsula must surely be moulded and inspired by such surroundings, as the late footballer and native son, Paidí Ó Sé, often opined.

A Kerry man is closing in on completing the adventure of a lifetime as he pedals his way across America to help raise funds and awareness for the Donal Walsh Live Life Foundation.

It may be Star Wars: Episode VIII but this is the third successive year the Force has arrived in Kerry with its dramatic scenery hosting the Jedi the longest.

No planning permission was required for the current construction of a new Star Wars film set on the cliff edge of a protected headland in Kerry, the county council had determined.

An infrastructure of people, ideas, and places built up in better times has been ground down, writes Gerard Howlin

Several parties are interested in acquiring the troubled bottled mineral water company Kerry Spring Water, the High Court was told yesterday.

A super-sized modern take on the traditional thatch cottage on the Dingle peninsula is a holiday home with a twist, says Trish Dromey.

It was, in Pádraig Hannafin’s own words, “a step in the right direction’’.

A 95% auction success rate was recorded at last week’s IAM Sold/Munster Property Auction sell-off of 20 lots, with all but one finding new owners, evidence of the strength of cash buying and investor interest.

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Engineers are faced with an uphill battle to protect a 2,500-year-old stone fort, a section of which collapsed into the Atlantic after being undermined by coastal erosion.

For one of the best-educated countries in the world, it is more than surprising that we allow ourselves to be taken for a ride on a regular basis.

Kerry County Council paid up to €800,000 to acquire an acre of land on a Listowel floodplain for social housing as recently as 2008.

THE son of one of Ireland’s greatest composers and musicians believes his father’s drinking was not the main reason for his death.

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country.

TWENTY American citizens have been awarded Irish government grants to learn Irish over the summer, among them a former FBI agent, a retired lawyer and a faculty member of the Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas.

THIS year is certainly better than 2010 in that enquiries are up, says Anthony Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald & Associates, Dingle.

COUNTY Kerry will once again host the first major stage race of the Irish Cycle racing calendar in 2011 when the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan takes place over the Easter Weekend from Good Friday, April 22 to Easter Monday April 25.

CATHAL O’SHEA lost more than half his original body weight in the past year – a massive 20 stone.

BRIGHT lights in the Dingle Peninsula are luring Manx Shearwater seabirds to their deaths, it has been claimed.

MOURNERS at the tear-filled funeral of a couple who died in a road accident were reminded by a priest of the need for organ donors.

A RARE picture of Eamon de Valera in unfamiliar garb while visiting the Great Blasket in 1947 is one of the fascinating photographs in a new book that gives insights into life in other days in the Dingle Peninsula.

THE good life beckons at Ballyferriter's Baile Bhoithín - the renovated farmhouse is on a mature and green half acre with its own veg patch, growing tunnel and copious amounts of fresh air.

THE Irish have taken over as the strongest buyers of quality Irish seaside home. No longer do they go almost automatically to overseas buyers.

The decision by An Bord Pleanála in relation to the enforcement of the Irish language conditions when granting planning permission is both significant and perplexing.

PROBLEMS caused by flooding and coastal erosion in Co Kerry are getting worse with each passing winter, it was claimed yesterday.

The man who was killed in a road accident in Co Kerry last night has been named.

A 27-year old man has been killed in an overnight accident in Co Kerry.