A heart was flown from Kerry to Dublin yesterday on board a scheduled Aer Arann flight as bad weather scuppered plans by the air corps to transport the organ for a lifesaving operation.

Michael Hilliard Mulcahy’s play, Beyond the Brooklyn Sky, deals with the generation that emigrated from Ireland in the 1980s and returned, some without having fulfilled their dreams.

It’s a temporary loss of sense but football is tasteless for Darran O’Sullivan right now.

A TRAGEDY on the scale of the 1979 Fastnet Race disaster was narrowly avoided last night after a yacht taking part in the famous race capsized 20km off Baltimore, Co Cork. (Click here to see a clip of the survivors talking about the rescue.)

A GARDA-DRIVEN Audi A6 travels from Dublin to collect John O’Donoghue at Kerry Airport when he flies home to his constituency for weekends at the expense of taxpayers, it has emerged.

AS compliments go it was as impressive as it was rare.

COUNTY Boards are facing sky-high bills as more and more inter-county teams opt to fly to away games.

A German airline plans to run twice-daily flights from Dublin to Germany by next summer as a direct rival to Ryanair, it revealed today.

Speculation is mounting that the Government is planning to sell-off Aer Lingus instead of floating the company on the stock market.

Former US president Bill Clinton has finished his round of golf with Dick Spring at the Ballybunion links course in Kerry.

The former US president Bill Clinton has arrived in Co Kerry.

Former US president Bill Clinton is due to make a relaxed start to his latest trip to Ireland with a round of golf in scenic Co Kerry.