The Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) air ambulance is on standby at Shannon Airport rather than its usual base in Athlone.

Latest: Gas supply has been fully restored to customers in Galway and Mayo.

Gas supplies in the west of Ireland should be switched back on a phased basis over the weekend, energy chiefs have said.

Latest: Odourless gas which entered the network in the west of Ireland is being sucked back out of the pipes and burnt off, it has been revealed.

Thousands of natural gas customers in Connacht have been told to shut off their gas supplies becasue odourless gas has got into the network from the Corrib Gas terminal.

“Locals only” does not always apply in Kerry – the county with one of the most stringent planning laws of any county, the councillor Maura Healy-Rae says.

For sale jointly with Killarney auctioneers Ken O’Sullivan and Brian O’Leary, a 72-acre holding in the townland of Headford near Barraduff is attracting some interest from a variety of sources.

Four boy racers were yesterday fined a total €15,000 after gardaí in Kerry mounted a covert operation near Killarney two weeks ago.

Eir has announced the locations of about 100,000 homes in up to 200 areas that will receive high-speed broadband in the year ahead.

A man has died in a multi-vehicle collision in Co Galway.

Following the release of a book on Kerry’s Republican dead last week, Ryle Dwyer relates how events on Dublin’s Vico Road in 1920 distorted The Kingdom’s history

Elderly people are being warned to be vigilant for scam artists claiming to be post office or bank officials wanting to replace fraudulent notes mistakenly handed out to pensioners.

The best of Irish youth orchestras will perform at the National Concert Hall on Saturday, Feb 8. Of the Irish Association of Youth Orchestras 8,000 members, just 400, or eight orchestras, will perform at the 19th annual festival.

She ought to have known better, but Queen Victoria was “alarmed’’ when, surprise, surprise, it rained during her visit to Killarney.

Connacht trio Frank Murphy, Mata Fifita and Brian Murphy have committed to the province by singing contract extensions.

A man who claims he has been treated with contempt by the Government after submitting an application for social welfare assistance has gone on a hunger strike and has warned he will starve to death unless he receives the help he needs.

Dairy farmer John Payne from Longford has won the top award in the Connacht Gold milk quality awards.

Gardaí have arrested a number of people in Cork and Mayo following a violent bank holiday weekend which saw two men stabbed in unrelated incidents in Cork and a man shot dead in Mayo.

The Irish Tarmac Rally Championship celebrated its 50th different winner of a round of its series since its inception in 1978 when Darren Gass won last weekend’s Safety Direct Galway International Rally, the opening round of the 2012 campaign.

Armagh’s Darren Gass (23) and his Monaghan co-driver, Enda Sherry in their S10 Subaru took a thrilling victory in the Safety Direct Galway International Rally, the opening round of the Irish Tarmac Championship.

Irish Tarmac Rally champion Tim McNulty welcomes the challenge of Sunday’s Safety Direct Galway International Rally, the opening round of the series.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

FOUR more people lost their lives road accidents bringing the toll since Friday to five – despite a Garda call for greater vigilance from all drivers after the worst monthly road death toll since early 2008.

SUNBURNT nose, sand in your toes, clear blue skies, outdoor pursuits, beer gardens, beaches and barbecues.

The funerals of two young women who died in last Tuesday’s car crash in Galway will be held today.

Funerals Masses have been held for hree young women killed in an horrific car crash in Co Galway.

Funerals are being held today for two of the four young women who died in a car crash in Galway on Tuesday.

THE driver of the car in which four students were killed on the Galway-Mayo border on Tuesday evening was fighting for her life last night.

The main N84 road between Galway and Headford is closed this afternoon following a serious collision between a car and a van.

A RETIRED plasterer died after a tragic accident while building a house for his daughter and her boyfriend.

THE rest of the country may have been preoccupied with the Lisbon Treaty, but in Kerry the topic of conversation this week was the brainstorm that seized Paul Galvin when he threw a tantrum and slapped the notebook out of the hand of referee Paddy Russell.

A number of areas around Galway city and county are still without water supplies following an electrical fault at a treatment plant last week.

Thousands of residents in Co Galway are without water today because of electrical problems at the Luimnagh water treatment plant.

THE world’s leading cyclists contest the five day Tour of Ireland next August.

A month after the crypto outbreak was first reported in Galway, nothing has changed.

GALWAY County Council, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and Food, has issued protection of water advice to farmers, as part of their response to what environmental health officers say is Ireland’s worst outbreak of cryptosporidiosis.

The son of a Traveller shot dead by Mayo farmer Padráig Nally has said the death F***ed up his whole family and that the accused had been allowed to walk around “Scotch free”.

The prosecution in the trial of a Co Mayo farmer who has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of a traveller more than two years ago, has claimed he hit the deceased like a badger, before shooting him as he tried to limp away.

Gardaí in Galway have arrested a third man following a foiled robbery at a service station in Headford this morning.

A 79-year-old woman has died in an overnight house fire at a cottage near Headford in Co Galway.