A book of condolence has opened in the State-owned Killarney House for the last member of the McShain family, who donated the house and grounds to the people of Ireland.

More than 200 people have signed a book of condolence which will be given to the family of the American couple who died in a pony and trap accident earlier this week while on a sightseeing tour of the Gap of Dunloe in Kerry.

It can be hard enough to get visitors to come to Ireland these days — so sending them astray on the streets of a leading tourist town cannot help things.

THE thousands of Munster men who died in the first world war are to be honoured at separate events in Cork and Kerry.