The OPW is to fast track flood relief work in the Clonakilty area with a public consultation process likely to take place in the West Cork town within the next six weeks.

A community is rallying around the family of a little Kerry girl due for a life-saving organ transplant next month.

IT was the simple, heartfelt tributes written on Áine Riordan’s white coffin that summed up the deep sense of shock and sorrow felt by young people in the wake of the Co Kerry road crash.

UPWARDS of 1,000 sympathisers filed past the remains of two brothers killed in the horrific Co Kerry crash on Wednesday.

THE first of the victims of Wednesday’s devastating car crash in Co Kerry will be laid to rest today.

GARDAÍ investigating the horrific single vehicle crash in which four Kerry teenagers died have confirmed the car was not owned by the driver or any of his passengers.

THE distraught mother of two brothers killed in a horror crash outside Killarney, Co Kerry, shortly after 7am yesterday, said she could not believe they were gone.

“AT the height of it, this land would have been worth €850,000 to €900,000, and it’s possible to get planning for a fantastic, detached house,” says Donal Cullotty of Coyne and Culloty Real Estate Alliance of a 22.5 acre farm at Crohane, Fossa, Co Kerry.

WALLACE Chief, winner of the Slievenamon Cup at the Crohane and Killenaule meeting, won a thrilling final to the Hotel Minella Tipperary Cup when defeating Ballyheigue cup winner Party Cee Jay at Clonmel yesterday.

Whytanyard Paul thwarted Carrigmore Becks’s attempt to collect his third Cup of the season at Galbally yesterday.

STAN DE GAME, jointly owned by Con Riordan and Kevin Downing from Ballymacoda, Co. Cork and trained by John Condon in Curraglass, collected his second All-Aged Stake of the season when he won the Fitzgerald Cup at Glanworth yesterday.

GILBERT O’SULLIVAN, the builder not the singer, is responsible for this home at Crohane, Ballinascarthy, one of a number of hits to his name in west Cork.