Latest: Kerry Mountain Rescue and the Valentia Coastguard have stood down their search for a missing hillwalker.

A huge increase in tourist and leisure traffic in a remote valley in Kerry is putting lives at risk, a meeting has heard.

Collectable yet affordable Irish work is going for sale online, says Des O’Sullivan

Two collections of photographs capture the magnificence of Ireland’s mountains, showcasing stunning surroundings and intimate portraits of the people who call the slopes home, writes Dan MacCarthy.

The largest event of its kind in the world, Killarney Adventure Race, welcomed record numbers of 2,500 participants this year.

A severe weather alert remains in place today after torrential rain destroyed roads and flooding cut off part of the Mizen peninsula in West Cork yesterday.

Killarney Adventure Race 2015 will take place in the picturesque tourist town of Killarney on October 3rd.

An Air Corps helicopter last night assisted firemen in extinguishing a major fire in Killarney National Park, Co Kerry.

Hillwalking, climbing and mountaineering have long been favourite pastimes in this country. Dan MacCarthy says Paddy O’Leary’s new history captures the intense rivalry of these sports’ participants

Two people -a man and a woman- have been airlifted to safety from Killarney's Black Valley in Co Kerry this morning having spent the night on a river-island.

Potholes could soon be things of the past in one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions.

FOR petrolheads, the Goodwood Festival of Speed, every summer, is a magnet. It showcases the rarest and most exotic of racing cars and allows legendary drivers, old and young, to display their talents in driving these uber-machines up the famous hill-climb, up the driveway of Lord Charles March’s fantastic country pile.

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission to Vodafone to retain two masts at Moll’s Gap, a well-known viewing area and stop-off point between Killarney and Kenmare.

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Some parts of Kerry will now be more than an hour away from their nearest 24-hour Garda station, following the closure of nine stations in the county, some of which had been there since the days of the Royal Irish Constabulary in the 19th century.

Whole swathes of the southwest were left without mobile phone coverage over Christmas, it has emerged.

The woman at the centre of one of the most difficult mountain rescue missions in almost 50 years has said she will be “forever grateful” to her rescuers.

Despite its fatal role in the Famine, our love for the ‘humble spud’ continues, says Louise Roseingrave

Irish hospitality has long been rumoured, and last week my mother and I witnessed it at the highest level during our vacation.

Some felt it in their hearts, some read it on their heart rate monitors.

An ambitious target of €100,000 is being set for supporters of an annual cancer research fundraiser.

Kerry farm auctions are a weekly event for Tom Spillane at the moment and he has now announced the forthcoming auction of another two farm properties — with a total of almost a thousand acres between the two.

DO YOU want to be connected with the wider world through modern technology – even if it means putting up with occasionally obtrusive masts – or remain in splendid rural isolation?

A PHOTOGRAPH sent from a mobile phone guided rescuers to mountain climbers in difficulty over the August bank holiday, it was confirmed yesterday.

THE feats of Fiadhna, a white-tailed eagle which has circumnavigated Ireland twice since being released in Killarney last August, were yesterday being celebrated by nature lovers.

THERE’S enough room for everyone, humans and animals, in this country.

A PLEA to leave the only public phone kiosk in the remote Black Valley, deep in the Kerry mountains, has been made to Eircom by Councillor Michael Healy Rae.

EIGHT young white-tailed sea eagles tentatively flapped their wings and took to the air over Killarney National Park as part of a project to reintroduce them to the south-west.

WHITE-TAILED sea eagles are winging it to all corners of the country.

A FURTHER 20 white-tailed sea eagles have arrived in Killarney National Park.

PUPILS in the Black Valley primary school, deep in the Kerry hills, are well aware they live amidst exquisite wild beauty. Given the environment in which they learn it’s not surprising nature walks and art are an important part of their curriculum.

AN accident involving a coach full of German tourists has again highlighted the need for a proper landline and mobile phone coverage in Kerry’s scenic Black Valley.

EIRCOM is to invest €500,000 to provide a landline service for 70 residents in a Kerry valley, Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue announced yesterday.

THE men who own Ireland’s highest mountain have been praised for welcoming 25,000 climbers onto their lands every year.

HUNDREDS of tourists pass through Kerry’s Black Valley each day, but emergency services can’t be contacted by phone in the event of an accident, or someone becoming seriously ill.

EVERYBODY needs a break — climb a mountain or jump in a lake, songster Christy Moore once hummed, and over the weekend participants in the inaugural OSI Irish Adventure Challenge took him literally.

THE sale of Kerry-based images company, Stockbyte, last week for €110m could inspire other success stories from a hi-tech centre in Tralee.

A MODERN, microwave phone system may provide a solution to telecommunications problems in Kerry’s Black Valley.

MOVES are being stepped up to lift a controversial ban on the erection of mobile phone masts within a kilometre of residential buildings in Kerry.

PLANNING problems with proposed mobile phone masts in Kerry are continuing, with four further refusals in recent weeks.

THE Better Environment and Safer Telecommunications (BEST) group commends Kerry County Council for its stance on keeping phone masts at a safe distance from the human population, thus protecting their health and safety.