Many people will be taking to the hills to work off those extra calories during the Christmas/new year period, but danger lurks out there.

A new cycling resort opens in Co Cork next weekend in a major tourism initiative at a family-owned country park.

A community is rallying around the family of a little Kerry girl due for a life-saving organ transplant next month.

THE former stage winner may have ridden the race 17 times and an 18th appearance is in his plans for this year but when Stephen O’Sullivan was handed the title of Route Director for this year’s An Post Rás by his father-in-law, Dermot Dignam, avoided soft options and came up with one of the most difficult routes in the history of the event.

DOWN by the sea and down in price, too, is this large, European-style property at Gurteen, Beara. On the tip of the peninsula at Eyeries, the house sits on an acre of ground and looks straight out to sea.

LANCE ARMSTRONG has guaranteed worldwide interest in this year’s Tour of Ireland by confirming that he will contest the event which takes place from August 19-23 with stage ends yet to be announced.

CIARAN POWER’S performances in the Kerry Mountains during Rás Mumhan over the Easter Weekend could strengthen his claim to a place on the Irish team for the Olympic road race.

A body recovered from dangerous cliffs in the Kerry mountains today and believed to be that of a missing Swedish hiker may have been spotted after a landslide in the area days earlier.

Gardaí in Co Kerry are investigating whether human remains found on a mountain near Killarney last night may be those of a missing Swedish climber.

KEVIN DAWSON will be defending his Credit Union Ras Mumhan title in Kerry over the Easter Weekend when the race will attract a record number of overseas riders.

A FORMER railway station, used in latter years as a hostel, is up for sale, suitable as a house, guest house or upgrading for future hostel use.

AGE-OLD Puck Fair has been described as an event where everyone acts the goat except the goat himself.