Long-demanded improvements to dangerous sections of the Mallow to Killarney road are being further delayed due to a lack of funding.

Tommy Barker reports on a lakeside land and houses lot in a scenic Killarney setting.

A retired Kerry farmer has become an unlikely celebrity following his appearance on a German television programme on the controversy stirred by Danny Healy-Rae’s call for a relaxation of drink-driving laws for rural people.

A SERIES of operations by customs officers in the south-west in recent days have netted tens of thousands of euro worth of contraband cigarettes, alcohol and drugs as well as a number of vehicles.

THE penny only dropped for Mike Crowley a couple of days after last month’s Limerick county senior final.

IT was the simple, heartfelt tributes written on Áine Riordan’s white coffin that summed up the deep sense of shock and sorrow felt by young people in the wake of the Co Kerry road crash.

FACEBOOK tributes have been pouring in to the four Kerry teenagers who died in the horrific crash near Killarney earlier this week.

“SHEER devastation”.

GARDAÍ investigating the horrific single vehicle crash in which four Kerry teenagers died have confirmed the car was not owned by the driver or any of his passengers.

Two teenaged brothers are among four young people who lost their lives when a car collided with a tree in Co Kerry this morning.

Three teenagers are dead and two more have been seriously injured following an horrific car crash in Co Kerry.

YOU didn’t have to be bigger than all the rest to catch the eye at Kenmare Fair yesterday.

A JOINT approach is being made by TDs, on either side of the county bounds, for funding to improve dangerous roads between Kerry and north Cork.

A gang rammed a garda car last night following a smash and grab in Co Cork.

Tommy Barker reports on a new energy-efficient homes scheme with lower pricing appeal and incentives to buy in Barraduff.

A “VIRTUAL ban” on Killarney townspeople from building houses in the surrounding countryside is “totally unfair”, according to a local official.

THREE young men being held by gardaí in Killarney at the weekend, in connection with an armed post office robbery were released without being charged.

PEOPLE in the picturesque village of Sneem, where Taoiseach Bertie Ahern holidays, are kicking up a stink over a foul smell believed to be coming from the local sewage system.

THE green light has been given for an extra 50 local authority houses in Killarney, which will go some way towards reducing a waiting list of more than 400 housing applicants.

THE children of the Celtic Tiger are beginning to dictate trends at one of the country’s oldest horse fairs.

THE children of the Celtic Tiger are beginning to dictate trends at one of the country’s oldest horse fairs.

CONCERN is growing, yet again, about the state of Lough Lein, in Killarney, amid fears of another outbreak of an algal bloom.

A SERIES of new sewage schemes in the Killarney area, part of an €82 million investment, should help improve water quality in Lough Lein.

A LONG campaign for a proper public water supply in East Kerry reached a climax yesterday with the signing of a €3m contract, in Rathmore, for a new scheme.

MALCOLM ELLIOTT, the doyen of British sprinters, finally achieved his stage victory when he won the big bunch sprint into Millstreet yesterday.

DAVID McCANN finally got just reward for his endeavours all week when he won yesterday’s marathon fourth stage of the FBD Milk Rás that took the riders from Charleville to Caherciveen with a first brief but testing visit to the Kerry mountains.

A JURY foreman yesterday called on the National Roads Authority (NRA) to study a stretch of the main Cork/Killarney road on which a senior Cork County Council official and her small daughter died.