Beach-friendly facilities for wheelchair users are being considered by Cork County Council.

The home of tasty mussels also offers up, tasty views, and a tasty price, says Trish Dromey.

Inchydoney beach in West Cork has been named Ireland’s favourite beach by international tourists for the third year in a row.

The Slieve Mish Mountains provide a scenic backdrop for this substantial four bed detached house at Keel, Castlemaine, in South West Kerry. 

It was the end of another day which had, up to that point, been uneventful for the lifeguards. Just after 7pm, they were routinely taking down the flag at a popular strand in the south-west.

The Presentation Sisters have confirmed that two of their nuns drowned at Inch Beach in Co Kerry last night.

Two elderly women died last night after being taken from the water at Inch Beach in Co Kerry.

Two elderly women, believed to be nuns, died last night after being taken from the water at Inch Beach in Co Kerry.

An adventurer and polar explorer, always on the lookout for new challenges, has become the first person to fly from Mizen Head to Malin Head by a paramotor.

Kerry adventurer and polar explorer, Mike O’Shea, has become the first person to fly from Mizen Head to Malin Head by a paramotor.

It’s Saturday and the sun is shining. What more could you want? A good beach bar, that’s what. Travel writer Pól Ó Conghaile picks 10 of the best from around the country

A sunny day at Inch Beach, Co Kerry - squeezed into just under two minutes.

HELEN and Brian Heaton must have been as surprised as anyone when Castlewood House, their 12-bed guesthouse in Dingle, was last week named the sixth best hotel in the world by TripAdvisor.

KERRY County Council is to review traffic control at Inch beach on the Dingle peninsula, following the death of an American tourist in her fifties who was on the strand when struck by a truck in July.

HAVING lost a daughter, Tony and Mary Heffernan feared they would never see the day when their gravely-ill little boy could live a normal life, let alone that they would see a medical miracle unfold.

CHASING waves on Inch Beach is a far cry from pioneering brain surgery in New York City but it’s a measure of the success the treatment has had on the life of 3-year-old Liam Heffernan.

A woman in her 50s has been killed in an accident in Co Kerry.

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.

THEY are known as the One-o-clock Nudes – bare-arsed aficionados of nude bathing who descend on Irish beaches during the summer to let it all hang out.

BUSINESS people in Kerry were yesterday urged to get behind a campaign to build a golf links, projected to create 65 jobs.

A HOTEL redevelopment and extension has been given the go-ahead at one of the country’s top blue flag beaches on the Dingle peninsula – made famous also by the film Ryan’s Daughter.

Tommy Barker warms to The Mill, a spacious property in Kerry with an outstanding array of features.

PEOPLE in Kerry were urged at the weekend to be vigilant in ensuring the county’s pristine beaches are kept free of pollution, litter, damage to dunes and anti-social behaviour.

ACTION is being taken to provide coastal protection for Inch Beach in Co Kerry where David Lean filmed part of Ryan’s Daughter.

A STRANDED whale has been rescued in what has been described as a “model” refloating operation.

The whale that got stranded on Inch beach in Co Kerry this morning has been successfully refloated.

THE reshowing of the film, Ryan’s Daughter, for the umpteenth time over Easter was a reminder of the magnificence of Irish beaches. Worth looking at for that alone.

A JUDGE yesterday warned the jury in the trial of man accused of murdering a Cork schoolboy about the extraordinary inaccuracies in media coverage.

THE smallest of samples could provide the breakthrough. It could be hair samples, clothes fibres or the tiniest splash of blood.

GARDAÍ hunting the killer of schoolboy Robert Houlihan are concentrating their investigations on 30 people, several of whom are known sex offenders.

Dan Collins

Sean O’Riordan and Niall Murray

Two bodies have been found in a Cork town at the centre at a seach for missing schoolboy Robert Holohan, it emerged tonight.

A body has been found in the area being searched for missing Cork schoolboy Robert Holohan.

The body of a woman has been found off the West Kerry Coast.