A ferry service connecting Clare and Kerry has seen numbers surge by almost 20% over the past two years through the promotion of the Wild Atlantic Way.

The finishing touches are being put to the €97m Tralee bypass due to open in mid-August.

The music of Paddy “Pecker” Dunne “is silent but not dead”.

JOHN KENNEDY is back on a familiar journey. During the three years that spanned his spell as Clare senior football manager earlier this decade, Kennedy was well-accustomed to the trip from his north Kerry home to the west coast of the Banner County.

ONE of the worst multiple murders in the history of the state yesterday claimed the lives of a mother, her two young children and a friend.

FÁILTE Ireland’s new director of golf Michelle McCreevy wore one of the broadest smiles of the thousands at Turnberry after Stewart Cink’s victory in the Open Championship.

WITH a site on the banks of the Shannon estuary, Asgard Cove in Limerick’s Loughill West is a place to come home to, by car, ferry, boat or by seaplane — the nearby village of Foynes made its name for just such an aircraft.

THE number of people killed on Ireland’s roads in 2007 passed 100 yesterday with the deaths of two young men in a single vehicle accident in Co Clare.

THIS Co Clare cottage has probably the shortest brochure specification of any property currently on the market: it simply says ‘Stone cottage on circa one acre in need of repair and renovation.’

BISHOP Willie Walsh said yesterday that he was satisfied with his handling of a case involving a priest and former De La Salle brother who was convicted last month of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy.

BOAVISTA, who walked away with this season’s Coursing Greyhound of the Year award after an unbeaten season, has tested positive for a prohibited substance following his victory in the Irish Cup, which carried a prize of €80,000, at Kilmallock, Co Limerick, three weeks ago.

IT all happened just like the ad on the telly. There was Galwayman Sean Keary at his apartment in New York when the call came from home to reveal he would be going to watch his team play in tomorrow’s All-Ireland Hurling Final - courtesy of sponsors Guinness and RTÉ’s Sunday Game.

Tom Higgins