A “highly sexualised” dance show, depicting the sexual conduct of Roger Casement sparked outrage during a family festival on Banna Strand in Kerry.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Kerry woman Sarah Linehan was walking down Banna Strand on Sunday evening when she happened across a scene that wouldn’t have been out of place in a holiday movie.

For a while there, the dunes of Banna Strand were threatening to become for Kerry what the hill in Crusheen was for the Clare hurlers in 1995 or the Spartan-esque Bere Island for Cork’s footballers in 2010. 

A full State commemoration for Roger Casement was led by President Michael D Higgins at Banna Strand near Tralee yesterday.

The wooden collapsible boat that brought patriot Roger Casement ashore to Banna Strand will go on public display in Kerry for the first time in over 90 years.

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

We shouldn’t ignore the rich history of other eras that surrounds us at the expense of

A missing part of the story of the German ship the Aud — the location of its tonnes of arms and ammunition planned for the South-West Volunteers to be stored for Easter Monday’s Rising — is believed to have been filled.

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.

Wolfe Tone’s fireplace is a feature of Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth spring fine art sale in Castlecomer .

The commander of the German U-20 submarine who ordered the devastating torpedo to be fired at the Lusitania and the officer who launched the strike have sidebar links to another dramatic event in Irish history — the 1916 Rising.

Congratulations to all who were involved in the publication of the Lusitania commemorative supplement in Friday’s Irish Examiner.

On May 7, Cobh and Cork will commemorate the centenary of the sinking of RMS Lusitania, the loss of 1,200 civilians and the support provided by Cork people after the tragedy. 

Inchydoney in West Cork has been voted the best beach in the country for the second year in a row.

Be that as it may, millennia of faith has already been observed so it seems likely we will continue to see a blurring of the lines between religion and sport.

Unknown heroes of the Irish Volunteers have been identified in graves in Glasnevin cemetery as part of a new commemoration.

The road system in Kerry is unlikely to be maintained to an acceptable level this year, due to council funds being slashed by €22m.

An anchor has been recovered from the wreck of the 1916 German gun-running ship scuttled off the south coast of Ireland.

There are plans to make final diving preparations today to raise the anchors of the Aud, the arms ship scuttled in Cork Harbour on Easter Saturday 1916.

In no particular order or weight ... Paul Brady, Henry Shefflin, Myrtle Allen, Saoirse Ronan, the Gulf Stream’s micro climate, Seamus Heaney, Fiona Shaw, Martin Hayes, Graham Norton, the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Rory McIlroy, Olivia O’Leary, Connemara, the Delphi and Blackwater valleys, Julie Feeney, John Hume, Lyric FM, Michael Noonan’s unflinching, selfless resolve at a moment of great personal tragedy.

THE 1916 medal, awarded posthumously to a young Kerry radio operator who died on his way to seize radio equipment on Valentia Island to contact the arms ship the Aud on Holy Thursday of that year, was yesterday handed over to the Kerry County Museum.

WORKING in the Central Criminal Court, I am aware of its highly-charged nature.

A MURDER-accused told a trial yesterday: “I am heartbroken over my friend, I cannot understand how he died — I wasn’t hitting him that hard.”

A PERUVIAN author whose latest novel is based on the life of Irish nationalist Roger Casement has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature.

PETE SAMPRAS. Andre Agassi. Andre Agassi. Pete Sampras.

The body of a man has been found on Banna Strand in Co Kerry.

Up to 100,000 people are expected to line the streets of Dublin today to mark the 90th Anniversary of the Easter Rising.

AT the 1975 Munster football final in Killarney the much-fancied Cork team were being hammered, and many Cork supporters began to bail out early.

THE 1972 Olympics are featured in a controversial Steven Spielberg movie called Munich later this month - but pentathlon athlete Margaret Murphy was there at the real games.

Niall Murray

Kerry football trainer John O'Keeffe has issued a dramatic statement signalling his intention not to take training this weekend.