Votes of sympathy for the family of the tourist couple killed when the horse and trap in which they were travelling plunged down a ravine in the Gap of Dunloe, a week ago, were passed at a meeting of Kerry County Council yesterday morning. 

One of Ireland’s top mountain guides has launched what’s being billed as one of the toughest and most exhilarating outdoor challenges ever staged in an Irish mountain range.

Kerry farm auctions are a weekly event for Tom Spillane at the moment and he has now announced the forthcoming auction of another two farm properties — with a total of almost a thousand acres between the two.