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.

Tralee GAA club John Mitchels merge old and new as they look to the future

A retired sportswriter was “savagely” beaten and kicked during a €3 robbery by a teenager who now takes part in martial arts events.

A PENSIONER was attacked, beaten and left bleeding on the ground by three men as he made his way home from a local pub.

FEARS of a recurrence of major flooding in Tralee have prompted a new study of at-risk areas of the town.

BLOCKED roads, fallen trees along with flooded homes and farmland greeted the residents of west Cork and Kerry yesterday as continuing heavy rainfall took a grim toll on one of the worst-hit parts of the country.

TRALEE-based Lee Strand Co-operative has appointed John O’Sullivan as its general manager.

PEOPLE living in one of Kerry’s most popular seaside areas have lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála against a major caravan park.

A Tralee man denied murdering another man in the town two years ago and today a trial commenced where it was claimed that the accused struck the deceased several times with a slash hook.

TORRENTIAL overnight rain caused flooding throughout Kerry yesterday.

Gardaí in Co Kerry are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a man in his 30s in the town of Tralee.

LEADING traditional musician and composer Eoin Duignan yesterday offered a reward for the return of his uileann pipes, which were stolen in Tralee on Wednesday afternoon.

A FULL-SCALE garda investigation got underway yesterday into the death of a married mother-of-three, whose body was found in a shallow river, near Tralee, Co Kerry, on Wednesday.

GARDAÍ yesterday appealed for calm among hostile rival elements of the Travelling community, in Kerry, to allow the investigation into the murder of Michael Faulkner, aged 43, in Tralee to continue.

BALDING candidates have been given lavish wigs; the clean-shaven have received beards and moustaches. Others appear as punk rockers while some are one-eyed monsters.

KERRY publicans have confirmed that they will not enforce the smoking ban due to come into effect on March 29 and may yet decide to challenge it in the courts.

NO ROOM at the inn is the message to Kerry councillors looking for a home for Jesus.