A 77-year-old bachelor farmer who was caught drink driving more than three years ago will be allowed “motor on” for another year, a court has decided.

With 20 titles, St Brendan’s College’s position at the top of the Corn Uí Mhuirí roll of honour is assured for a while yet.

A 65-year-old pedestrian who was wearing dark clothes and had no torch or reflective gear died after being struck by a car, on February 6, an inquest was told.

A local authority has been urged “to stand tough and firm” in relation to getting work completed on unfinished housing estates.

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan is not convinced by the round robin proposal aimed at raising the standard of the Munster senior football championship.

Almost 1,000 acres currently designated for housing in Kerry’s two biggest towns are to be dezoned because a projected demand for homes won’t exist in the coming years.

Kerry Group Rás Mumhan race director Tadhg Moriarty has warned riders with designs on making an impact on this year’s event to be “prepared for one of the hardest stages in the history of the race.”

Almost 2,000 acres earmarked for housing in Kerry are to be dezoned under a new plan for the Tralee-Killarney hub.

Three rural Kerry parishes where Garda stations have been closed were targeted by an opportunist gang of thieves in the past week during a crime spree which involved raids on five separate public houses.

FIRIES, KERRY €495,000

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.

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.

COUNTY Kerry will once again host the first major stage race of the Irish Cycle racing calendar in 2011 when the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan takes place over the Easter Weekend from Good Friday, April 22 to Easter Monday April 25.

Gardaí have today seized more than €100,000 worth of cannabis during two separate searches in Killarney in Co Kerry today.

PAT GILROY has already drawn a line through last week’s opening league win over Kerry but Cian O’Sullivan will find it much more difficult to leave his memories of Killarney behind.

FLOODING at Glenflesk, near Killarney, resulted in the closure of the N22 national primary road between Cork and Tralee, last evening.

FORTY acres with a “good nature” will go to auction today in O’Shea’s Bar, Milltown, Co Kerry.

A COLLEGE student fell to his death after climbing onto the roof of his rented house after a night of heavy drinking.

THE “for sale” boards have just gone up on a Castlemaine farm in Co Kerry, and interest has been stirred already.

A “VIRTUAL ban” on Killarney townspeople from building houses in the surrounding countryside is “totally unfair”, according to a local official.

CONSIDERING the first phase of ‘Pairc na Gloine’ sold out in three weeks, there should be no shortage of buyers for phase two of this Kenmare development.

WATER shortages are creating major obstacles to the development of industry and tourism and the building of houses in large parts of Kerry, it was claimed yesterday.

THE spiralling price of sites in and around Killarney is putting pressure on local authorities to provide more affordable housing.

PEOPLE all around Ireland took to the streets over the weekend to celebrate the expansion of the EU.

KERRY County Council, which has more than 470 applicants on waiting lists for houses, has reported a ‘mixed’ take-up of low-cost sites.