There are 624 approved applicants currently on the county council housing list in the area which includes most of the Ring of Kerry. Half are single persons.

Trish Dromey discovers a stone-fronted dormer home at a scenic Kerry spot dubbed millionaires’ row.

From Christmas Day swims to Christmas tree flings, there’s no excuse to be a couch potato this festive season, with lots on offer to get you and your loved ones up, out, and on the move, writes Susan O’Shea.

Shocking underwater footage of the Atlantic off the Kerry coast has revealed it has turned into a lifeless underwater desert over the past 30 years.

Fiann Ó Nualláin follows in the footsteps of the Fianna as he explores a province’s hills and vales.

Beautifully restored Sneem farmhouse has mountains of rural charm, says Trish Dromey.

As a documentary on Eamon de Valera’s time in America airs, historian and author Ryle Dwyer looks at how history is taught here — and explains why he did not take the subject for his Leaving Cert.

Whether it was pulling 99s in the shop or carving up opposition defences on the pitch, everyone could see something very special in the Fossa youngster, writes Christy O’Connor.

A man and two children have been airlifted to hospital after they got into difficulty while swimming in Co. Kerry this afternoon.

Faced with stone from Sneem, facing down to Derrynane and Kenmare Bay, and facing up to Dark Sky Reserve stars and nighttime galaxies via a diamond-shaped feature window, all to a musical backdrop of bass notes heard through open doors from an Art Deco baby grand piano once owned by booming-voiced English actor Brian Blessed... truly, there’s a lot going on to engage the senses at Arcadia.

Bathing in the sea on Waterville Beach in South Kerry, an award-winning beach will remain closed until later this week after lightning struck a pumping station at the town’s waste water treatment plant.

ESB Networks have confirmed that around 10,000 homes, farms and businesses have no power due to Storm Hannah.

Abbey Island can be reached in just a few steps across the beach at Derrynane, Co Kerry.

Tommy Barker reports

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, have met to begin discussions about extending the current confidence-and-supply deal.

The Government is set to approve controversial wide-ranging powers to its new housing regeneration development agency to allow it purchase public and private land to build social houses.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned that Ireland must move into a “new phase of preparedness” for all potential Brexit outcomes amid fears a no-deal situation could cost this country hundreds of millions of euro and see unemployment levels surge.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to up the stakes with Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin this week by insisting, at a private meeting, that he will only put forward a budget in October if he knows his party will still be in power to implement it.

From one kingdom to another, the Prince of Wales hailed his visit to Kerry yesterday as “remarkable”, after fulfilling a long-time ambition to see what is considered to be Ireland’s most beautiful county.

As the fresh paint dries across Cork City, a massive security operation has kicked in and traffic restrictions will be in place from early morning for the visit of Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

Kya deLongchamps suggests some stealth history lessons on those family holidays and days out.

A massive clean-up operation is under way across Cork City after Ophelia left a trail of destruction.

Our coastal islands possess fascinating stories but the almost countless islands on Irish lakes have their fair share of stories too: an abandoned hippy colony on Roeillaun in Lough Corrib Co Galway; a round tower sacked by the Vikings on Devenish Island, Co Fermanagh. 

It was a location for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, so it’s no surprise that Kerry has been listed as one of the best star-gazing spots on the planet.

Beach goers are being urged to be respectful when taking to our country's strands.

DON’T use the weather as an excuse. Get out there, says Donal Hickey. 

Almost 1,000 people have signed a petition to help a Ring of Kerry village secure a doctor. A continuing GP service in Sneem and its surrounding area is at risk, with the village doctor, Patrick Malone, due to retire after 34 years, writes Anne Lucey.

Almost 1,000 people have signed a petition to help a Ring of Kerry village secure a doctor. A continuing GP service in Sneem and its surrounding area is at risk, with the village doctor, Patrick Malone, due to retire after 34 years.

Majella O’Sullivan travels the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle route, and goes off the beaten track to meet some of the charities that will benefit from the event. 

The rise in Star Wars-related interest in Kerry’s Skellig Coast is prompting local tourism interests to widen the choice of attractions.

Don’t fret about how to fill the remainder of the school holidays as there are things to do — and also it’s good for children to experience a bit of boredom now and again, writes Kate O’Reilly.

Performing in public absolutely did not come naturally to me.

Inchydoney beach in West Cork has been named Ireland’s favourite beach by international tourists for the third year in a row.

Great sadness has been expressed at the death of a church warden after a boat capsized on Sunday in Kenmare Bay, where two men were planning a duck shoot.

An end-of-summer ‘Sale Agreed’ has been posted up on the Ring of Kerry’s jewel-set Derrynane Hotel, which went to the open market in May.