Kerry ladies football has a spring in its step again after the frustration of relegation following a league campaign that didn’t bring a single point.

Further controversy has hit Kerry ladies football, with the senior team docked league points for fielding three unregistered players against Mayo last month.

They've been abandoning higher ground.

The chairman and the secretary of the Kerry Ladies Football executive resigned yesterday after the controversial decision to terminate the contract of minor manager Jonathan Griffin.

Client confidentiality was most definitely in ‘safe keeping’ at a Co Limerick legal practice as frustrated burglars wasted an entire night in the run-up to Christmas, trying to crack a 56-year-old safe.

A farmer who was beaten and bound by a gang of men will not be able to return to his home when he leaves hospital due to the damage caused by the attackers.

The IFA is seeking more gardaí and patrol cars in rural Ireland in the wake of a weekend attack.

SATURDAY

Sunday, February 7. The first page turned in the next chapter of Cork ladies football.

A man has been acquitted of careless driving causing the death of a retired teacher in a shopping centre carpark following a three-day trial.

ONCE a familiar sight in upland areas, the red grouse is only rarely seen these days, says Donal Hickey. 

CIARA O’Sullivan has been retained as Cork’s ladies senior football team captain for the 2016 season — and insists the Rebels are not panicking, despite losing their first two Lidl National League fixtures.

New Cork ladies senior football team manager Ephie Fitzgerald has added former county player and Nemo Rangers forward James Masters to his backroom team for the 2016 campaign.

All-Ireland JFC semi-final - Templenoe (Kerry) 1-9 Curraha (Meath) 0-5: Classy Templenoe continued their relentless pursuit of Croke Park glory when they saw off the stern challenge of Meath side Curraha at Kilmallock yesterday afternoon, but not before they got an early scare.

The effects of Storm Frank are still being felt following the latest severe weather event to lash the country.

Conflicting estimates of damage caused by a spate of gorse fires in Killarney National Park have been given by statutory bodies.

Eoin Edwards talks to Peadar Ó Riada about the final of this week’s competition named in honour of his father

Two young men lost their lives in separate accidents over the Easter weekend.

The 2014 Sliabh Luachra Music Trail, celebrating the traditional musical style of the area, will be launched on Friday by Arts Minister, Jimmy Deenihan, TD, at Ballydesmond Community Centre. The aim is a year-round calendar of events, encompassing festivals and venues throughout the region.

During the 2012 angling season Mt Collins/Brosna Anglers Association put a lot of information we had in our possession into the public domain in an effort to highlight the shocking demise of a once famous river called the Feale.

A regional airport is opposing plans for a wind farm, on the grounds that it may cause hazards for aircraft using the facility.

The theft of €7,000 from an 84-year-old woman in a rural part of north Kerry on the same day as the closure of the local Garda station has left a community in fear.

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.

A Garda staff association has expressed serious concern at how the force in Cork City is going to cope after it was left with just one 24-hour station for the whole city.

It was back to the grindstone for St Kieran’s on Tuesday evening.

Claims a controversial wind- monitoring mast was a likely source of danger to planes using Kerry Airport have been rejected by the Irish Aviation Authority.

With up to 100,000 acres estimated to have been hit by severe Shannon river flooding since early June in counties Roscommon, Galway, Longford, Westmeath and Offaly, IFA president John Bryan has called for a lead agency to take charge, instead of about six agencies having a say in water levels — including the OPW, Waterways Ireland, the ESB, and the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

A decommissioned rocket, Robocop, music incorporating a live data feed from the 32m radio telescope at the National Space Centre.

A new energy strategy for Kerry will see whole swathes of the county earmarked for windfarms — but not in top scenic areas.

Jimmy Woulfe and Juno McEnroe profile the new secretary general at the Department of Finance

Well-known seanachaí Eddie Lenihan recalls the dares and games of Halloween to Carl Dixon.

ONCE in a lifetime you work with the best GAA chairman there is. Alas, it’s only the once.

A KERRY garage owner who fitted a speed-limiting device to his son’s car after he was caught breaking the legal limit has backed a coroner’s call for the mandatory fitting of limiters on all vehicles registered to motorists under 25 years of age.

ONE of her little brothers came forward with a Cork football jersey; another with a Harry Potter book — representing just some of the passions of Alicia Brough, a young woman who loved life.

Gardaí have located the body of an elderly Limerick man who was last seen on October 17.

THIS week is one of the big occasions in Irish greyhound sport with the final of the Pat Hennerty Sales Irish Laurels at Curraheen Park on Saturday. There will be a splendid all-sponsored supporting card.

For the once hurling-centric Éire Óg club, Sunday’s football finals – and the appearance of Daniel Goulding, Ciaran Sheehan and exciting minor Kevin Hallissey – offer a global platform to the strides the club has made with the big ball. Fintan O’Toole visited the Ovens-based club

THE new chief executive of the Irish Dairy Board is Kevin Lane, a native of Brosna, Co Kerry, who is currently with the Kerry Group.

AS we enter a period of unprecedented economic, social and political crisis, I am amazed at the lack of an alternative vision and programme of action to meet these challenges from any section of Irish society.

TEST results on the country’s water supplies indicate that 99% are compliant with standards relating to the presence of lead.

THE deaths of two young men in weekend crashes in Co Kerry brings to 18 the number of people killed in traffic accidents in the county so far this year — the highest number since records began, according to gardaí.