There had been “zero progress” in two years on the clean-up of a Co Kerry farm-yard where there was no proper provision for storage of soiled water and slurry, a county council solicitor told Tralee district court yesterday where the owners, a husband and wife, had been summonsed under EU legislation.

Three parishes in the Kerry Diocese are each to lose a priest in the latest round of transfers and changes announced by Bishop Bill Murphy.

THE rustic poet Patrick Kavanagh put it lyrically when he wrote that “ordinary things wear lovely wings”.

THE short sharp shock approach is being taken with a 60-acre farm at Killeentierna, Currow, Killarney, Co. Kerry by joint agents Tom Spillane and Co and Wm Dennehy and Co.