The long-awaited Macroom to Ballyvourney bypass is “near shovel ready” and yellow jackets will be on the road in January, Fine Gael TD, Brendan Griffin, told councillors at a meeting in Tralee.

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Twenty years after a lobby group protested in Brussels over the poor state of a Co Kerry peninsula road, serious discussions have finally commenced on finalising land acquisition for the national secondary route.

Today is the perfect day to take advantage of the quiet roads and pedal your way along some of Munster’s best cycling routes, says Dan MacCarthy

An Taisce says its latest legal challenge to a €69m upgrade of the N86 main road to Dingle is “to ensure things are done properly”.

As a young boy he was silenced. Now he spends his days speaking out against racism and promoting tolerance, reconciliation, and rejection of bigotry.

Giant seagulls have begun attacking and killing mature sheep inland in South and West Kerry, it has emerged.

The European Union has kept peace among member states, but some are finding the ties that bind are becoming too tight, writes Caroline O’Doherty

A strong plea was yesterday made to An Taisce not to proceed with a judicial review in the High Court of a project to upgrade a major tourist route.

An Taisce is to challenge a decision by An Bord Pleanála to give the green light to major works, including cycle lanes, on one of the country’s busiest tourist roads.

Gardaí are hoping CCTV footage may give clues that will help trace a boat worth an estimated €25,000 which has been stolen in a popular tourist area.

Sean Lacey will be going for his fifth straight Lacey Cup title when he takes to the start-line in Tralee tomorrow for the traditional Munster season opener.

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.

Long-awaited improvements to the N86 main road, through the Dingle Peninsula, could be delayed for up to 20 years if An Bord Pleanála does not give the all-clear for the work to proceed.

A €65m scheme to radically widen and straighten a large section of a narrow road between Dingle and Tralee will have to go back to the drawing board, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

More than 2,500 rowers and up to 10,000 visitors will descend on Courtmacsherry this weekend as the West Cork village hosts the All Ireland Coastal Rowing Championships.

Holland’s black players were allegedly subjected to monkey chants during an open training session in Krakow last night, with captain Mark van Bommel branding the abuse “a real disgrace” on the eve of Euro 2012.

A head of steam has built up against the country’s first large “type-three” single carriageway between Dingle and Tralee in Co Kerry.

Dozens of road crashes could be avoided by upgrading a substandard road in Co Kerry, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

A cyclists’ representative group has expressed concerns about the use of cycle lanes replacing hard shoulders on rural roads.

Pep Guardiola launched an astonishing foul-mouthed attack on a journalist as the Barcelona manager did nothing to dampen speculation that he and his side are vulnerable going into tonight’s Champions League semi-final against Chelsea.

A Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and Barcelona should be judged on its own merits, but these sides have scores to settle at the Nou Camp tonight as old enemies and grievances came to the fore in the pre-match jousting.

Petr Cech insisted the Nou Camp does not scare Chelsea after helping them beat Barcelona to take a crucial lead into Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final second leg.

Remarkably, for the fifth time in recent years, the Carlton Hotel Circuit of Kerry Rally, the third round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, ended in a tie-break.

Twin bombings struck intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus today, killing at least 27 people and wounding nearly 100, according to state media.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said that there may be a market for the obsolete e-voting machines - in Irish theme pubs.

THE tiny villages of Camp and Annascaul in Kerry ground to a halt over the weekend as parishioners paid their last respects to a young sporting hero who died suddenly.

THE Kerry GAA player who collapsed during a local derby championship game at the weekend died yesterday.

A second tourist light plane has crashed on take-off in Botswana’s Okavango Delta but all six people onboard survived.

THE AA was receiving a call-out to stricken drivers every 30 seconds at one point yesterday as commuters fought through sub-zero temperatures to get to school or work.

Clashes in a refugee camp in Sudan’s violent Darfur region left six people dead, peacekeepers said, days after violence elsewhere in the area claimed the lives of at least 37 people.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin today repeated calls for Israel to allow aid boat the MV Rachel Corrie through its military blockade of Gaza.

ISRAEL has decided to free hundreds of foreign activists detained following the commando attack on the aid flotilla which left at least nine activists dead.

The Irish Anti-War Movement is holding a march and demonstration to the Israeli Embassy on Thursday following yesterday's Israeli attack on the humanitiarian flotilla to Gaza.

HUNDREDS of Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces across east Jerusalem yesterday in the worst rioting in years as a senior Hamas leader called for a new “intifada,” or uprising.

A man who died in a car crash in Co Kerry earlier today has been named.

WITH more than 20 years experience of campaigning on rural issues, noted community activist Brigid O’Connor is determined to break the FF-FG stranglehold on council seats in the Dingle area.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, deported from the US to face charges of helping murder of 29,000 people, was transferred to a German prison today.

Sudanese government forces have attacked a Darfur refugee camp and killed civilians, according to reports received by the UN.

Josep Guardiola has refused to be drawn on speculation linking Barcelona with Barclays Premier League stars Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Adebayor.