Tim had popped the question during a weekend trip to Paris as they strolled along the Champs-Élysées.

Each year, a different musical society takes on the challenge of performing the opening number, and this year it was Bravo Theatre Group from Loughrea, Galway.

The Mullingar native opened the Flicker sessions in Killarney INEC on March 10.

Did you manage to change your work-life balance for the better in 2017? Then you could be the new brand ambassador for the Balance Expo.

Donnchadh Walsh, the three-time All-Ireland winner with Kerry, is pioneering an intriguing one-day Balance Expo, in Killarney next January.

Did you see any of the winning productions?

There have been better adventure games released since Monkey Island, but none of them had that Gilbert magic, writes Ronan Jennings

Des O’Driscoll on the best things to do this week

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is to review its co-operation with the Lansdowne Road Agreement and seek an immediate restoration of its members’ pre-recession levels of pay.

The country’s largest nursing and midwifery organisation yesterday criticised the government-formation deal agreed between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, claiming the document is “light” on proposals for the future of healthcare.

MUSIC NEWS: Netflix subscribers now have access to two worthwhile music documentaries: Keith Richards: Under the Influence, in which the Rolling Stones guitarist talks about his new solo album and the sounds that have inspired him over the years; and Time Is Illmatic, the film that tells of Nas’s classic 1994 album, and his background in New York that gave rise to it. 

Jackie Crowe, who has a rare terminal cancer, is a patient attending the oncology unit in Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, which will benefit from the weekend concerts in the INEC, Killarney.

The Kerry branch of the Irish Hotels’ Federation (IHF) has asked all its members to make full refunds to people who made weekend accommodation reservations for the cancelled Killarney Festival of Music and Food.

Tourism stakeholders in Cork city and county were yesterday urged by a leading airline industry figure to get behind Cork Airport.

The dispute with Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan over Junior Cert reform will continue into 2016, if she implements her proposals without teacher agreement, the leader of the secondary teachers’ union warned.

A crowd of water charges protesters gathered outside the venue of Labour's annual conference today, accompanied by a heavy garda presence.

MUSIC NEWS: Fans of Bombay Bicycle Club got a nice bonus at the band’s gig in Earls Court last weekend when the Londoners were joined on stage by David Gilmour. 

Cork Opera House

EXCITED.

GIG WISE: With Electric Picnic out of the way, the next biggie on the Irish music horizon is the Guinness Amplify festival taking place through the five provinces on different weekends in September and October.

A young Kerryman has toe-tapped his way into the history books.

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Members of a 2,000-strong audience have expressed their shock after comedian Billy Connolly told an award-winning photographer she was “a fucking c**t”.

A jobs fair, organised by the GAA in Kerry to help tackle unemployment in the county, could be a template for the association nationally.

IF YOU’RE heading down to the Lakes of Killarney in the next week or so you may encounter a large group of walkers out around the shores.

All comics are big children.

Singing legend Bonnie Tyler plays the first of her three Irish dates in Co Kerry tonight.

TWO hundred Kerry teenagers, as well as choirs and guest singers from Cork and Limerick, will stage Teen Spirit 111 at Cork Opera House this Sunday, April 10.

SINGING sensation Adam O’Sullivan, being treated for a benign brain tumour follows, up his Late Late Show appearance at Thomond Park tonight when, as mascot, he will lead out the Munster team against Australia.

WORLD and European champion Katie Taylor tops the bill at a major fight night scheduled for Cork’s Rochestown Park Hotel on November 11.

UP to 1,000 staff have been lost across the mental health services around the country in the past 18 months, a leading psychiatrist has said.

The thorny issue of club fixtures and their place in the GAA calendar will be amongst the topics up for discussion at the Munster Council’s first ‘Club Day’ in the INEC, Killarney on Saturday.

THE thorny issue of club fixtures and their place in the GAA calendar will be amongst the topics up for discussion at the Munster Council’s first ‘Club Day’ in the INEC, Killarney on Saturday.

LEGENDARY entertainer Cliff Richard, looking relaxed and willing to give an impromptu bar of a song, was feted in Killarney last night.

MIKE ‘THE REBEL’ PEREZ will be in line for a world heavyweight title shot inside two years, according to his manager Gary Hyde, who insisted he was not surprised at the devastating manner in which the Cuban demolished Luis Oscar Ricail less than a minute and a half into Sunday’s scheduled eight-rounder at the INEC in Killarney.

PHILIP SUTCLIFFE speaks highly of featherweight, Willie “Big Bang” Casey, and last night the Limerick southpaw justified the praise lavished on him by the former European bronze medallist with a second round victory over Calosa Caolho De Jesus from Brazil at the INEC in Killarney.

ENTRY to Europe’s biggest poker event may have been €500 a head but that didn’t stop 800 players turning up — and a further 50 queuing for reserve tickets outside the door.

FINBAR WRIGHT should feel at home when the singer entertains those attending the AIB gala dinner in the INEC on October 9.

MEMPHIS has Graceland and Elvis Presley’s body, the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris cradles the tomb of Jim Morrison but the latest shrine to a musical hero lies in the stony grey soil of Mullingar.

A TOTAL of 27 arrests were made by gardaí during the annual Rally of Lakes, which attracted crowds estimated at between 40,000 and 50,000 to Killarney at the weekend.

ARGUMENTS can be costly but Keano has always bucked the trend.