Problems with signage along the 2,500km Wild Atlantic Way are expected to be resolved in the coming weeks amid complaints that some visitors are being directed off the beaten track in certain scenic areas.

Kerry County Council has ordered mitigation works to be carried out on a rare Bronze Age valley in west Kerry where a donkey sanctuary is being constructed.

People in a scenic area on the northern side of the Dingle Peninsula, which has received favourable mention in the Lonely Planet tourist guide, are protesting about not being included in the Wild Atlantic Way.

Kerry County Council last night confirmed it had given the go-ahead for a donkey sanctuary and roadway now under construction in a unique Bronze Age valley near the Conor Pass which contains dozens of archaeological monuments.

Three rural Kerry parishes where Garda stations have been closed were targeted by an opportunist gang of thieves in the past week during a crime spree which involved raids on five separate public houses.

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.

GLORIOUS fuchsia, so much part of the landscape of West Cork and Kerry, seems to be growing in greater profusion than ever this year, as anyone travelling those areas can testify.

FIRE safety could be a concern for a local authority at a proposed €500 million gas terminal at Tarbert on the Shannon Estuary.

COUNTY Kerry will once again host the first major stage race of the Irish Cycle racing calendar in 2011 when the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan takes place over the Easter Weekend from Good Friday, April 22 to Easter Monday April 25.

CYCLING legend Sean Kelly saddled up yesterday to lead the first leg of a 600km fundraising cycle tour of Munster.

HEAVY goods vehicles are being warned not to travel through one of Kerry’s most scenic mountain passes following incidents involving trucks on a narrow, twisting road.

UNDER Mount Brandon and with views over the Bay, this bungalow at Upper Tier Cloghane, Co Kerry, is new to the market with Peter Fenton of Sherry FitzGerald O’Connell’s Dingle office.

The Health and Safety Authority is to investigate the death of a man in an industrial accident in Co Clare yesterday evening.

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