A Connemara farmer has challenged the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to take him to court over works he is carrying out on a special area of conservation.

The creation of digital high-speed broadband hubs in Gaeltacht areas and the islands is part of a strategy to attract back emigrants and help create 1,500 jobs.

THE country’s premier Irish cultural festival, Oireachtas na Samhna, which came to a close in Killarney yesterday, will return to the Co Kerry town next year.