A major cycle and walkway facility developed along a closed-down railway line in West Limerick is to be further extended to the Kerry border.

Nine dairy farms have been short-listed as finalists for the 2012 National Dairy Council & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards. The nine are:

One of the south-west’s major waste operators, which has been operating a large waste transfer and dry recycling plant without planning in a rural area near Listowel, Co Kerry, for seven years, narrowly avoided being jailed this weekend after he gave a sworn undertaking to shut the site.

A WASTE management contractor who has run a recycling business without planning permission for more than six years has given an undertaking to cease operations at the site in north Kerry by May 31.

A CIRCUIT court judge has expressed his frustration with delays in completing a planning process arising from the operation of an unauthorised waste recycling centre in north Kerry.

GARDAÍ have ruled out foul play in their investigation into the discovery of a man’s body at a waste sorting site near Listowel in Co Kerry on Friday.

A post mortem examination will be carried out this morning on the body of a man found at a waste recycling facility in Co Kerry yesterday.

GARDAÍ in Listowel, Co Kerry, were last night investigating the bizarre circumstances surrounding the discovery of a man’s body at a waste sorting site near the town.

THE sun shone brightly yesterday, but it couldn’t hide the pain of a town that bid farewell to two young local men who died in a car crash on Sunday.

CONCERN continues to grow about Kerry’s appalling road safety record.

A man has been killed in a motorcycle accident in Co Kerry this afternoon.

A 21-year-old woman has died after the car in which she was travelling struck a ditch in Co Kerry yesterday evening.