Health insurance provider Aviva is in hot water after sending insensitive material to the parents of two deceased children.

Broadcaster and journalist Matt Cooper has become a patron of the Saoirse Foundation, a charity for seriously ill children.

A heartbroken mother yesterday spoke of the "absolute privilege’’ she and her husband had of being the parents of two children who died of the extremely rare Battens disease.

Scores of heartfelt tributes yesterday came through social media to a brave little boy who died from Battens Disease, which he had fought for four years.

In the end, he died in his parents’ arms after a brave battle. Liam Heffernan, 5, won many hearts because of his valiant fight against a rare and terminal illness.

The site of an old shipwreck, displaced in recent storms, is dangerous because of unstable sand dunes, it has been warned.

Thirteen dolphins were killed after being caught in trawler nets off the west coast, post-mortem examinations have revealed.

A legend lives on. He may be gone, but the unquenchable spirit of Páidí Ó Sé was everywhere during the annual football tournament that bears his name in his beloved West Kerry at the weekend.

A fistful of coins is OK to pay a local authority fine — but not 15kg of nickel-free 1c pieces.

An innovative businessman is generating extra cash by capitalising on the number of tourists getting lost on one of the country’s most scenic routes.

I’M just back from Achill, a wet windy outpost of mountains and cliffs, where it gets dark later than anywhere else in Europe.

The condition of a young boy who has a rare and usually fatal disease is deteriorating.

The parents of a three-year-old Kerry boy who has Batten disease have been told the pioneering surgery he had in New York last year is not going to be a cure.

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.

The number of Irish beaches securing coveted Blue Flag status has hit an all-time high.

EVERY child loves balloons at a party and, today, hundreds of balloons will help mark the sixth birthday of one precious Kerry girl — Saoirse Heffernan.

THE parents of a two-year-old Kerry boy suffering from a rare disease were praying for the best possible 10th wedding anniversary present — his recovery following pioneering surgery.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD Kerry boy was undergoing brain surgery that may potentially save his life in a New York hospital last night.

A two-year-old Irish boy is set to become the world’s youngest child to undergo pioneering brain surgery.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD Kerry boy will become the youngest child in the world to undergo pioneering brain surgery to combat a fatal disease.

A YOUNG Kerry boy suffering from a rare condition, Battens disease, has been invited to the US for assessment of a medical treatment trial which could save his life.

A DOLL held closely by her mother, and a colourful sunflower-shaped toy in the hands of her father, symbolised the innocent joy a little girl brought to people’s lives.

A five-year-old girl from Co Kerry has lost her fight against the very rare and fatal neurological condition Batten's Disease.

A MAJOR split has developed in Fianna Fáil in Kerry South with a county councillor presenting a challenge to former ceann comhairle and sitting TD John O’Donoghue.

THE Fine Gael party in Kerry South is expected to adopt a two-candidate strategy for the next election when it holds a convention in Killarney tonight.

THE heartbroken parents of five-year-old Saoirse Heffernan, who recently travelled to the US to undergo treatment for Batten’s Disease, have been told their little girl is “starting to grow her angel wings”.

THEY left Ireland for the US last week with a possible cure for their critically ill daughter within reach.

AN EXCEPTIONAL coastal setting in Co Kerry, with cliffs at a boundary, is a bonus with this Ballyheigue farm.

THE controversy over the expected opening of the recently-built community hospital at Dingle came as no surprise to me.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Kerry girl suffering from a rare disease yesterday flew to New York for specialist medical tests that could save her life.

A CORK father has vowed to fight to provide the life-saving treatment his two young children so desperately need.

MORE than 50 years after his prize-winning smile was framed in a photographer’s lens, Mossie Knightly finds himself once again under exposure.

THANK you for Valerie O’Sullivan’s picture of tranquillity (Fisherman collecting seaweed near Keel in Co Kerry, backpage, February 25).

ARTICLE 46 of our constitution, states: “Any provision of the constitution may be amended, whether by way of variation, addition or repeal in the manner provided for by this article.”

LUNDIN MINING, the Canadian/Swedish metals exploration company, is to continue looking at its additional Irish-based prospects this year, other than just its flagship Irish asset — the Co Kilkenny-based Galmoy zinc and lead mine.

AT least four candidates are expected to put their names before a long-awaited Kerry South Fine Gael convention in Killarney, next month.

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A post mortem will be carried out today in Kerry General Hospital on the body of a man pulled from a river in Co Kerry yesterday.

Irish-based exploration company Ovoca Resources said it raised €379,652 in a placing of 3.8 million shares and raised a further €197,855 selling land it owned in Keel.

BIG, bold and in a beautiful location, this house at Keel, Kilgobnet in Co Kerry is priced at around E1.2 million. And why?

Air and sea rescue services have launched a massive search for a woman who is missing off the coast of Achill in Co Mayo.

COLOURFUL Puck Fair, in Killorglin, Co Kerry, has a long-earned reputation for madcap acts and wild boozing, but it’s place where you can also learn how to behave yourself.