Gardaí are planning a major clampdown on speeding this weekend in a bid to reduce the amount of fatalities on the roads during the lethal summer period.

IF HOUSES were capable of feelings, Saob’s Orchard near Killarney would probable be Zen-like and very calm.

Phyllis Murray fought a brave uphill battle to beat breast cancer.

An independent local election candidate has received the support of six TDs and a number of senators in his bid to have the ombudsman reopen his case against Limerick County Council.

Up to 240 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of €190,000 have been seized by Gardaí in County Clare.

Hotelier John Brennan has been warned by Kerry County Council not to develop a luxury camping and caravan park on the grounds of a 19th century manor hotel, near Kenmare, until an appeal to An Bord Pleanála is finalised.

A TEACHER has told of the outrage she felt when she turned up for school the morning after Finance Minister Michael Noonan delivered the budget to learn her job was to be axed with immediate effect.

The Gaelic Athletic Association is the most successful sporting organisation on this island. It has provided state-of-the-art sporting facilities for generations, especially in areas where no other facilities were available.

THE parents of two Kerry boys told they cannot play football with their local team are now looking to Listry club officials to step into the row.

The mother of two young footballers at the centre of a 'Parish rule' row stormed out of a Kerry County Committee meeting last night before votes on the matter were counted.

The father of two young Kerry boys who have been refused permission to play football with the parish where they attend school is appealing to GAA bosses to see sense.

A NEW vote is to taken by the Kerry County GAA Committee following a settlement in the action by two schoolboys who claimed they might have to give up sport altogether because the GAA would not let them play football for the club they love.

THEY want to play football for the club they love, but have been told by the GAA they can only play for the club in their parish.

A PERCH on Cork’s main Bishopstown Road, heading west from the suburban centre, CUH and the Bishopstown bar, can be yours for around €335,000.

A VALENTINE’S Day wedding celebration in Limerick today kicks off with a big highland fling.

A 30-year-old man killed in a tragic shooting accident on St Patrick's Day was named today as Darren Kiely from Co Limerick.

A man in his late 20s was killed today when he was accidently shot by his friend in Co Limerick.

Three people who lost their lives this weekend have been named.

Gardaí in Co Kerry were today investigating the death of a man whose body was found near Killarney.

THOUGH denied his freedom yesterday, a man involved in the events surrounding the shooting dead of Det Gda Jerry McCabe in 1996 will be free in just over three months.