Plans to develop walking and cycling routes in the South-West could run into obstacles unless landowners’ rights are respected, it has been warned.

It’s time to cry halt — that’s the message from a region which has more wind turbines than most other parts of the country.

Agreement from CIÉ to transfer the ownership of sections of a disused railway line to Kerry County Council has paved the way for the development of a major cycling and walking route.

Erasing graffiti from a prominent landmark on the busy Ring of Kerry tourist route could be a “high risk” operation, according to Kerry County Council.

A survey to determine the attitudes of people living along the route of a proposed walking and cycling trail in north Kerry is to be carried out next weekend.

A local authority has been accused of lacking leadership in a heated row which could scupper plans for a major tourist walking and cycling trail along a disused railway line.

A row about ownership of a disused railway line on the Kerry-Limerick border may end up in the courts.

CIÉ is claiming sole ownership of a disused rail line where leisure walkers were blocked by farmers.

A major cycle and walkway facility developed along a closed-down railway line in West Limerick is to be further extended to the Kerry border.

Approx. 5km. west of Kinsale town on the R600 cross Duggan’s Bridge and turn left immediately afterwards. Park outside the Dock Pub.

AS I left to go looking for parasol mushrooms, I noticed the sedum and the valerian in the garden were teeming with butterflies and I couldn’t resist, as usual, stopping to take some photographs, such glorious creatures they were.

THE Great Southern Trail promises to be one of the finest long-distance waymarked walks in Ireland.

A SIGNIFICANT upgrading of a new walking and cycling route between north Kerry and west Limerick has been announced.

RETURNING from a recent walking holiday on the Dingle peninsula, my partner and I chanced to stop off in Abbeyfeale where we heard about the Great Southern Trail, the walking and cycling route being developed along the trackbed of the old Limerick-to-Tralee railway line.