Cork racing driver Matt Griffin and his Clearwater Racing team-mates Mok Weng Sun and Keita Sawa claimed victory in the LMGTE Am category of ‘The 6 Hours of Silverstone’, the opening round of the World Endurance Championship at Silverstone yesterday.

Eir has announced the locations of about 100,000 homes in up to 200 areas that will receive high-speed broadband in the year ahead.

Kya deLongchamps says with minor updating, Lakefield would be a handsome home to love and to live in.

Tommy Barker enjoys the aspect of this one-off woodland haven on Caragh Lake in Kerry, a perfect find for a painter, potter or poet.

This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

Dominant through the opening stage, Cork’s Denis Moynihan and his Kerry co-driver Ger Conway in their Airflow Services/Daikin backed Mk 1 Ford Escort went on to take a deserved victory in the Rentokil-Initial Killarney Historic Rally, the first round of the 2015 Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Historic Championship.

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I LEFT the cyber world with all its virtual distractions and came back down to Earth — not with a crash, but with a gentle soft landing — at Carrig Country House Hotel, off the Ring of Kerry.

Caragh Lake, Kerry €1.25 million

With the lead changing three times on the final day of the Cartell.ie Rally of the Lakes, Monaghan pair Sam Moffett and James O’Reilly (Ford Fiesta WRC) took advantage of their rivals’ problems to win the Killarney based event.

With lakeshore access and a swimming pool, there’s a watery theme to this Kerry jewel.

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Lisburn’s Wesley Patterson and his Cork co-driver, Alan Whyte took their Ford Escort RS1800 to a fine victory in the Gleneagle Hotel Killarney Historic Rally.

Over 100 crews will tackle tomorrow’s Gleneagle Hotel Killarney Historic Rally that doubles as the opening round of the 2013 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship and final round of this season’s Southern 4 Historic Rally Championship.

Signs of a resurgence in the hospitality sector have been signalled by Georgina Campbell who yesterday judged the Granville Hotel in Waterford as the Irish hotel of the year and The GreenHouse in Dublin as restaurant of the year.

Only the fearless, the strong, and the nimble-footed are wanted for a key operation on the Kerry mountains in late July each year.

WITH the announcement of the 2011 Billy Coleman Award winner just days away, some of its former incumbents are busily planning for next season even though one driver is being coy about his plans.

THERE is unlikely to be a stampede of Irish applicants for the second intake at the FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy.

IT should be a fact or fiction question at this stage.

HAIL King Enda, master of all he surveys in the town by the Laune.

SOME of the most renowned stages in Irish rallying, like Moll’s Gap, Caragh Lake and those in the Béara Peninsula, are the principal reason Tim McNulty opted to compete in this weekend’s Cartell.ie Killarney International Rally of the Lakes, the third round of the Irish Tarmac Championship, instead of last week’s Circuit of Ireland Rally.

DEREK McGARRITY could be forgiven for having a sense of déjà vu this weekend as he goes from one circuit to another.

HOLLAND have two of the race favourites at this weekend’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan and while neither figured in yesterday’s opening stage, their rookie compatriot Robert-Jan Mol (West Frisia Combilift), stepped up the steal the limelight.

WITHIN hours of arriving in Ireland Dutch cyclist, Dion Beukeboom, outsprinted the race favourites Brian Kenneally and Paul Griffin to win the first stage of last year’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan, and trailed them all the way to the finish three days later when he ended up third overall.

THE little-known Kerry slug, which hit the headlines two years ago after getting in the way of a proposed bypass road in Ballyvourney, Co Cork, is about to get back in the news.

A TOTAL of 27 arrests were made by gardaí during the annual Rally of Lakes, which attracted crowds estimated at between 40,000 and 50,000 to Killarney at the weekend.

A REZONING decision by Kerry County Council opens the way for a new 92-bedroom hotel in the Caragh Lake area, Killorglin.

Andrew Nesbitt (Subaru WRC) remains at the top of the leaderboard of the Ordnance Survey Rally of the Lakes.

Rose Martin wanders through a Victorian lodge that’s set in one of the most peaceful places on the Ivereagh Peninsula.

BECAUSE we live in this country, we tend not to look upon it in the way that a tourist might - and that's a pity.

BASED on previous performances, Dessie Nutt is the obvious favourite in Sunday’s Killarney Historic Rally.

GAZING across the foothills of the Magillacuddy Reeks to the waters that caress the shores of Caragh Lake, it is easy to see how such a majestic setting attracts people from all over the world.

UP to 25 people were arrested in Killarney, Co Kerry, over the weekend for public order offences.

CONTAINING some of the most daunting stages in Irish rallying, this weekend’s Ordnance Survey Ireland/ Gleneagle Hotel co-sponsored Killarney International Rally of the Lakes, has several potential winners.

CARAGH Lake in Kerry has an almost magical charm [[[[ [[[[—]]]] ]]]] and the spell has sprinkled gold dust on some of the most expensive and exclusive homes in the county.

TWO houses, with two different price ranges, but in the same beautiful setting at Caragh lake in Co Kerry, are on offer through Michael Coghlan of Sherry FitzGerald Coghlan, and include something for the first-time buyer and trader-upper.

Killarney will play host to Ireland's leading drivers on May 4 and 5, when the International Rally of the Lakes returns to the sporting calendar, after a year's absence due to the foot-and-mouth scare.