One priest in the county conceded: “football is the religion at the moment.”

Pressure is mounting on Bishop of Kerry Dr Ray Browne to retain a priest in one of the biggest Catholic parishes in the country.

Kerry County Council is seeking funding to prevent flooding along a stretch of the Flesk river, on the main N22, near Killarney. Twenty houses have been cut off by annual flooding in recent years.

An increasing preference for cremation is easing the problem of a shortage of public burial space in Killarney.

Five of the 53 parishes in the Diocese of Kerry are now without a resident priest and changes announced yesterday by Bishop of Kerry Dr Ray Browne, are to take account of five deaths as well as retirements.

Fenit Harbour in Kerry was deemed the best place to land guns from the German ships, and it was decided that the rail network would be the best means of distribution of the weapons in the South-west, says Niall Murray

Kerry County Council is seeking a reassessment of key sections of the national road network in the county after some of its main roads were closed due to flooding in December, a meeting in Tralee has heard.

A townland in Kerry where 14 families have been marooned six times in the past two years will not be designated an area of fur-ther assessment under the new flood-risk survey by the OPW.

Races yesterday saw lots of frills and fashion as well as thrills on the racing front.

We are used, now, to dealing with complex matters of identity. We are not easily shocked.

A coroner has appealed to young drivers to slow down, saying “a car is a dangerous weapon”.

When most people look in their cupboards they see cups and saucers, bowls and dishes.

Two teenage friends died after their car went out of control and crashed near Killarney, Co Kerry, early on Saturday.

FR Pat O’Donnell wouldn’t be in the habit of giving tips but this one he was full sure of.

The hum of excited voices swirling in the background leaves little to the imagination as to Peter Keane’s whereabouts.

Upwards of 1,000 "boy racers’’ in noisy modified cars were in Killarney, Co Kerry, at the weekend, with gardaí receiving more than 30 complaints from the public about alleged dangerous driving and dangerous manoeuvres.

An inquest heard yesterday of how a swim in the lakes of Killarney for two friends on a warm afternoon last summer ended in tragedy.

Work to relieve regular flooding on a section of the main Cork-Killarney road will not be done for at least three years, it has emerged.

Motorists are advised to take extreme care on the roads this morning following heavy rain and flooding overnight.

A retired Kerry farmer has become an unlikely celebrity following his appearance on a German television programme on the controversy stirred by Danny Healy-Rae’s call for a relaxation of drink-driving laws for rural people.

The sudden death of young Shane Murphy last year after he collapsed playing football puts sport into perspective

Four men are to have speed-limiting devices fitted to their cars following a display of doughnuts earlier this month.

The Bishop of Kerry has indicated he will not be in a position to preside at all Confirmation ceremonies in the sprawling diocese this year due to a painful and debilitating back injury.

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.

FOR a few seconds the crowd erupted — the sight of Seamus Moynihan taking to the Fitzgerald Stadium turf united all Kerry club supporters.

THE county of Dublin may have waited 16 years for Sunday, but Skerries Harps have never known a week like it in all their 103 years.

THERE’S a glimmer of hope that land for a public burial ground may, at last, be available in Killarney.

ONE of the most heartening trends around the country nowadays is the huge number of people taking part in voluntary litter-picking and other related works to tidy up their neighbourhoods.

CAMERAS secretly placed at illegal dumping blackspots in Kerry are already catching culprits in the act.

FOLLOWING large-scale destruction of the countryside by fires, last year, action is being taken to prevent a recurrence before the annual gorse- burning gets underway.

DANNY O’Sullivan landed an injury time equaliser to secure a draw for Killorglin in this extraordinary Corn Uí Mhuirí tie at Glenflesk yesterday.

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.

BOY racers blocked off a section of the main Cork to Killarney road around Glenflesk for about half an hour on Saturday night, as other young drivers performed various stunts in modified cars.

A HUGE gorse fire in the Glenflesk area of Co Kerry early yesterday came dangerously close to houses and within a few hundred metres of a church.

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

A gang rammed a garda car last night following a smash and grab in Co Cork.

FEARS of a recurrence of major flooding in Tralee have prompted a new study of at-risk areas of the town.

One man has died and another is seriously injured following a road crash in Co Kerry this morning.

MOST roads in Kerry were again passable last night after some of the worst August flooding in living memory.

THE O2 mobile phone company yesterday apologised to taxi drivers in Tralee for twice cutting off services at peak taxi business times recently.