A teenager who died when she was ejected from a car as it plunged into a low-lying field on the Cork-Kerry border had not been wearing a seatbelt.

Promoting a Cork Gaeltacht’s heritage could help sustain its population and economy, writes Niall Murray.

The outflow from a main stream channelling treated waste water into one of Killarney’s famed lakes has been found to be “of less than good quality”.

Kanturk’s Jackie Daly is a legendary master of the accordion. He tells Pet O’Connell about his 60-year career.

Proposals have been put in place to designate the River Blackwater as a ‘blueway’, turning it into a potentially major tourist attraction.

Ovens is always hot to trot, and No 2 could well get a family trading up out of nearby Ballincollig.

Irish Volunteers were trailed around Cork by Royal Irish Constabulary on a miserably wet Easter Sunday 1916, writes Niall Murray

Nine Kerry towns and villages will soon be without a GP, and towns which have managed to restore doctor services are doing so under sharing arrangements.

Met Éireann has given us the green light for dry weather over the coming bank holiday weekend, a pensioner had to be rescued from a freezing canal in Limerick today after he fell in taking part in a massive clean up and Margaret Hickey tells us why she is voting no in the upcoming marriage equality referendum. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

BIG Brother is watching — all the time.

The loss of up to 18 jobs in a factory which has been a mainstay of the economy in a Cork-Kerry border area for 67 years has been described as extremely disappointing.

A priest blessed with a talent for communicating with the masses has seized on the 50 Shades of Grey fever sweeping the nation to spread the faith.

A 21-year-old mother has appeared at Tralee District Court charged with careless driving causing the death of her 14-year-old babysitter, a passenger in the car she was driving on the Cork-Kerry border last June.

ROSSDOHAN WALK, KERRY WAY

THE Cork and Kerry mountains were golden with gorse when we drove west last weekend, not Irish dwarf gorse, which displays its glory in September, but French gorse, the tall fellow which Goldsmith described, in The Deserted Village, as “blossom’d furze unprofitably gay ... ”.

A hill farmer who ambushed and assaulted a neighbour on a remote road near the Cork-Kerry mountains was yesterday jailed for 12 months.

A GROWING consumer demand for health-enhancing foods has helped a distribution company in the Muskerry gaeltacht to create 65 jobs and grow turnover last year to €15m.

I nervously went up to Coom, on the Cork-Kerry border, to be taught how to shear. It was akin to shaving while arm-wrestling, says Conor Power

Gardaí have seized drugs with an estimated street value of €170,000 following a raid on a family home on the Cork-Kerry border.

The widow of a man who was killed in a hit-and-run incident almost four months ago has issued an emotional appeal for the driver to come forward.

Crimestoppers is prepared to offer a substantial reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed a cyclist in a hit-and-run on the Cork-Kerry border.

She was the screen icon who put Ireland in the Hollywood limelight. But a battle over her legacy could take the shine off Maureen O’Hara’s glittering career. Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan reports

Gardaí today said a teenager reported as missing has been found safe and well.

The Cork-Swansea ferry operated relatively successfully from 1987 until 2006.

A MARINE biologist based in the South-west has issued a warning about a jellyfish-type animal arriving on beaches in the region.

EIGHT Honda 50s set off at dawn this morning from the highest pub in Ireland, The Top of the Coom, en route to the highest pub in England.

ABSOLUTE rarity — you’ll hardly get the chance again to build such a country-set house so close to one of the country’s fastest-growing towns.

A MAN has died after the car he was driving lost control and hit a concrete post, bringing to three the number of people killed on Irish roads since Friday.

AS World TB Day was marked around the globe yesterday, parents were anxiously waiting for children attending two crèches in Cork to be screened after it emerged a woman who contracted the disease worked in both centres.

THE price is “just shy of €300,000” say the selling agents for a new Ballyvourney Gaeltacht area scheme of 14 new semis. But, at €299,500 a pop, the level is so close to ‘shy’ of that figure it is almost blushworthy.

I WOULD love to put a stopwatch on a sandhopper, the half-inch long, pearly crustacean found foraging amongst the washed-up seaweed on our beaches. If one could harness the energy of the billions found amongst the sea wrack, one could fuel half the country’s JCBs.

EVEN the house name and address are evocative, Tall Trees, on Temple Hill. But, it is the size of house, its site, location and elevated views that really delivers on the dotted line for committed house hunters.

Hundreds of tourists are expected to flock to Cork and Kerry this summer after 7.7 million people in Germany watched a television drama shot in the southern counties.

CRITICISM has been levelled on the Department of Health after it emerged yesterday that the number of reported TB cases in Cork and Kerry is beginning to rise again.

VISITING my native Kerry recently I was delighted to see the crowds attending Mass in that wonderful county.

TOURIST chiefs in the southwest region are celebrating bucking the national trend with an 5% increase in foreign visitors, and they are hoping to attract transatlantic flights into Cork Airport.