FOR much longer than millennia, islands have been a source of intrigue, writes Dan MacCarthy. Someone gazes out from the mainland wondering: “What is out there?”

Great sadness has been expressed at the death of a church warden after a boat capsized on Sunday in Kenmare Bay, where two men were planning a duck shoot.

Is there an architect in any period of Irish history with as many hotels and suites to his credit, as Kerry’s James Francis Fuller? 

Tommy Barker finds his breath taken away by this exquisitely set Ring of Kerry 2,800 sq ft hideaway.

Last of trio of thatched houses in Sheen Falls, Kenmare, has five-star hotel accommodation says Tommy Barker.

A call to illuminate a bridge linking Cork and Kerry peninsulas has been rejected on cost grounds.

BUNAW PIER-KILMAKILLOGE HARBOUR, BEARA, CO KERRY

WE continue on the L4911, crossing scenic Cappul Bridge at the head of Ardgroom Harbour. We are immediately in wild country, Tooreennamna and Tooth mountains behind us and the Iveragh mountains across Kenmare River, ahead. After 0.5km, we pass an unpaved roadway going left, with a yellow Beara Way waymark. We could make the nearby parking space our trailhead, shortening the walk by 2km.

Football legend and television pundit Pat Spillane was on hand yesterday to see off hundreds of participants in the ninth annual Kerry Way Cancer Research Walk.

Mickey Ned O’Sullivan was the first footballer to score a goal in Páirc Uí Chaoimh and all going well was meant to be coaching the Kerry minors on the last day the old ground hosted a Munster football final as well.

ROSSDOHAN WALK, KERRY WAY

LEHID BRIDGE, KENMARE, CO KERRY

KENMARE RIVER WALK

Seductive self-catering... in Clare & Kerry

One of the country’s premier hotels, the five-star Sheen Falls Lodge in Kenmare, Co Kerry, is to be sold in a deal worth about €5m.

The Ring of Kerry gem-set hotel Parkna-silla, on 500 acres and with 62 lodges and villas, has been put up for sale for €10m.

The way has been cleared for hotelier and TV show presenter John Brennan to obtain planning permission for a multimillion-euro tourism facility near Kenmare, Co Kerry.

UNTIL we begin issuing citizenship papers to the birds, Kevin Dwyer will remain one of a small, select band of Irishmen as familiar with Ireland from above as they are from the ground.

I LIVE in a beautiful part of rural Co Kildare and I love the landscape and the wildlife that surrounds me. But now and again I get a hankering for something different. And I have to admit that Kildare is slightly lacking in high mountains and dramatic seascapes.

PLANS for a futuristic exhibition centre — projected to attract 73,000 visitors annually and create 16 jobs in Kenmare — were unveiled in the south Kerry town, last night.

A HOLIDAY home in Kerry owned by a notorious American fraudster was yesterday sold to property developer James Long for €500,000 at an auction in Kenmare.

IT’S the time of year when many people explore the shoreline, cagily wet their toes in the incoming tide, more daringly breast the white-fringed waves, or simply stroll along our beaches.

ONE of the most valuable parcels of development land in Kenmare has been sold for €19.4m, over €4m more than expected.

A YOUNG Kerry hurler may have to demolish the walls of a €180,000 house he started to build without planning permission in a scenic area.

A fisherman is missing in the Kenmare area since yesterday.