Esther McCarthy meets the people whose job it is to give tourists that special Irish welcome.

A planning row has erupted in a north Kerry village over plans by a renewable energy firm to complete a partially developed power and heat-generation facility.

A man has died after being struck by a van in Co. Kerry last night.

A construction company has pleaded guilty to not having one of its drivers properly insured in a case where iron bars in a trailer struck and seriously injured a pedestrian.

The jury in a case where a woman was seriously injured by loose bars from a passing trailer found the driver not guilty of dangerous driving causing serious harm but guilty of failing to take adequate precaution with the load.

The motorist on trial for dangerous driving causing serious injury to a neighbour saluted her the moment before she was struck across the legs by long iron bars that had gone sideways on his trailer.

A driver has been put on trial after a woman jogging near her home in Rosscarbery was seriously injured when struck with iron bars that came loose on a passing trailer.

Kerry County Council is investigating reports of rats "swinging off the branches of trees" in a north Kerry estate.

Stepping out of Central Station, Belfast, at about 7pm on the Saturday before last, I saw, at the end of the street, a murmuration of starlings wheeling about the sky.

A bag of grain — because he always produced “top quality grain” — and a copy of The Farmers Weekly — because no week was complete without it, were placed on the altar for the funeral Mass of Anthony O’Mahony, 74, the farmer who died in an incident involving a teleporter (truck-mounted lift) while on his way to check on his spring wheat at his lands in Rattoo south of the village last Tuesday.

There is a “sense of awful shock and gloom” hanging over the Co Kerry parishes of Causeway and Ballyduff after the death of 74-year-old farmer Anthony O’Mahony in an incident involving another local farmer.

Update 12.33pm: A man in his 60s is to appear before a court in Tralee today in connection with the death of an elderly farmer yesterday in what local reports suggest may have been ’a row over noise’.

UPDATE: A 62-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a man in North Kerry. 

A film shoot took a dramatic real-life twist for students at a Kerry school when armed gardaí swooped on the scene.

There’s the big show in Dublin tomorrow, but you know all about that. Michael Moynihan caught just one of the thousands of other games on this weekend to give another snapshot of the GAA...

Kilmoyley boss John Meyler insists tomorrow’s county hurling final with St Brendan’s (Abbeydorney, 2.30pm) is too close to call.

The style stakes were high at the weekend as fashionistas from across the country vied for pole position and the title of Best Dressed Lady at Killarney Races.

Click and Go has a number of special offers on the run to include a November deal to Maspalomas in Gran Canaria, prices starting from €349 for a week at the Vista Oasis Apartments.

There are some words that look out of place sharing the same sentence. Jose Mourinho and modest. Paul O’Connell and ordinary. Kilkenny and football.

As expected, Cork have made wholesale changes for Sunday’s Division 1 semi-final against Donegal from the team that beat Derry last Sunday.

Kerry 2-14 UCC 2-23

In typical January fashion, the rain has arrived to wash away the snow, the snowmen, and the winter wonderland hopes of many schoolchildren — for now.

Kerry GAA authorities are treating "with the utmost gravity" claims that a hurling umpire was attacked by a player and left requiring hospital treatment following the vicious assault at a match in Kilmoyley on Sunday.

One of Ireland’s oldest whiskey distilleries has been bought by a Mexican tequila giant.

He’s always backed himself. So when it came to telling his colourful life and football story, the only person he’d trust to put proper context on all those raucous and riotous moments was his own hand. Galvin In His Own Words. It has bestseller written all over it

Tipperary have named an unchanged team for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC final showdown with Kilkenny at Croke Park.

The Royal Portrush course in the North has been invited to join the rota to host future Open Championships.

A 10ft set of headphones crafted from age-old whiskey barrels will form the centrepiece at a gig with a difference in the North this summer.

Up to 200 houses in North Kerry are brandishing placards announcing they will be put up for sale if a planned windfarm with 156-metre turbines is given the green light.

The Kerry GAA chairman has described Colm Cooper’s wait for the Player of the Year award as “mind-boggling”.

St Brendan’s, Ardfert 0-12 Causeway 1-09

Ballyduff 2-13 Causeway 1-16 (AET)

After the Kerry footballer issued a strongly-worded statement in response to slagging of his facial hair (yes, really), we look back at the evolution of the Galvin goatee.

Ryle Dwyer looks at a frenzy of violence against British forces at the height of the War of Independence in Kerry, and reveals the grisly fate of two Black and Tans who went missing