Two Presentation nuns who died at Inch Strand, in Co Kerry, on Thursday night, are now believed to have drowned, investigators have concluded.

Mystery surrounds the circumstances in which two Presentation nuns died at Inch Strand, in Co Kerry, on Thursday night.

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.

An inspirational video launched by a cancer sufferer six weeks ago has been viewed more than 110,000 times on YouTube.

Traditional Irish music has lost one of its oldest and notable virtuosos with the passing of Paddy Cronin, 88, a pupil of the fabled fiddle master of Sliabh Luachra, Padraig O’Keeffe.

Close links between University College Cork and Kerry dating to the mid-19th century were recalled yesterday when the board of governors held its first meeting in the county.

A cyclist has died in hospital in Co Kerry after being injured in a road crash last week.

A cyclist has been injured in a road accident in Co Kerry.

The jury at joint inquests into the deaths of a father and his young daughter in a house fire in Tralee has asked the public to check their smoke alarms regularly.

A 28-year-old man has been charged in relation to a major drug seizure in Tralee.

Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae has reacted angrily to a new proposal from the HSE to ban smoking on a hospital campus in the south west.

Those who knew him well saw globe-trotting millionaire John O’Connor as a dynamic, complex, mercurial, and generous man and paid their due tributes yesterday.

Modern psychiatric care methods have resulted in patients not being as closely observed as they were in the past, it has emerged.

A small, close-knit community was plunged into grief yesterday evening after news filtered out that Niamh McCarthy had died at Kerry General Hospital in Tralee.

A garda who died following a tragic shooting incident was remembered at his requiem Mass as a kind, thoughtful and outgoing young man who loved his job and treated all people with respect.

A 29-year-old garda who was injured in a shooting incident in Tralee in Co Kerry, has died at Kerry General Hospital.

The body of a man has been discoverd in a bog in north Kerry.

A five-year-old boy on a weekend break with his parents and younger sibling in Killarney, Co Kerry, died after getting into difficulties in a hotel swimming pool on the morning he was due to go back to Dublin, the inquest into his death heard yesterday in Tralee.

Dr Crokes will be without defender Shane Myers for their AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final againstCrossmaglen on February 18.

A MAN is set to run the scenic Ring of Kerry in a single day to raise funds for a little boy who has stunned medics by his recovery from pioneering surgery for a fatal brain disease.

TWO brothers who killed a man in Killarney in April 2007 were driven away from the scene by another man to their uncle’s house near Newmarket, Co Cork, the Circuit Criminal Court heard in Tralee, yesterday.

THE family of a murdered Kerry teenager have said they are “very upset” by remarks made by a solicitor representing one of the main suspects in the case who died last week.

GARDAÍ investigating the horrific single vehicle crash in which four Kerry teenagers died have confirmed the car was not owned by the driver or any of his passengers.

THE distraught mother of two brothers killed in a horror crash outside Killarney, Co Kerry, shortly after 7am yesterday, said she could not believe they were gone.

A rescue operation is underway off the Kerry coast.

Five men have been killed on Irish roads in four separate crashes since yesterday.

I READ with some interest your report headlined ‘Tralee waiting lists completely unacceptable’ (December 3).

THE best Christmas presents were still wrapped yesterday — in swaddling clothes and baby grows.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy, staying with relations during a midterm break, died after a fall from a car bonnet, an inquest heard.

A DETERMINED campaign, including the collection of more than 20,000 signatures, to retain cancer treatment services at Kerry General Hospital seems to have failed, it emerged.

THE Garda ombudsman’s office yesterday confirmed it was investigating an incident in which two men sustained injuries during a Garda operation in Co Kerry.

A BRAIN haemorrhage sparked by a road traffic accident resulted in the death of a 68-year-old mother of a large family, an inquest was told in Tralee.

MYSTERY still surrounds the cause of a single-car accident which resulted in the death of a 23-year-old woman outside Killarney, early on June 27, 2006.

A WOMAN in her 80s was killed yesterday in a crash in Co Cork. Her husband was seriously injured.

A WOMAN who broke her back in a mountain fall is taking part in a gruelling, charity cycle tomorrow to raise funds for those who brought her to safety.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a 30-year-old man in Killarney, Co Kerry, at the weekend, yesterday appealed to people who saw him in a number of pubs in the town prior to his death to come forward.

GARDAÍ were last night trying to identify the charred remains of a man who died when a car exploded into flames following a three-vehicle smash.

UPWARDS of 200 nurses yesterday staged what they described as a ‘silent and dignified protest’ when Health Minister Mary Harney came to Tralee to open a new unit at Kerry General Hospital.

Members of the Irish Nurses Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association are to stage a protest in Kerry today to coincide with a visit by the Minister for Health.

AN urgent call was made yesterday for safety measures on a dangerous stretch of roadway in Kerry.

Gardaí are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 14-year-old boy in Co Kerry.

A cyclist in his 20s has died after being struck by a car near Tralee in Co Kerry yesterday evening.

A murder hunt was launched after a man was stabbed at a New Year's Eve house party.

One man has died and two people were injured in a car crash today in County Kerry.