More than 60,000 tonnes of litter is expected to be collected from Kerry roadsides this year, in what some councillors warned was a losing battle with litter louts in a top tourist county.

TWO young men were seriously injured and a third escaped unhurt when the car in which they were travelling was involved in a dramatic collision on the outskirts of Killarney, Co Kerry, yesterday evening.

Tommy Barker finds a country retreat whose owner sings its own praises.