Despite appeals not to set illegal gorse fires, a spate of such fires blazed again on Kerry mountains during the weekend.

LEHID BRIDGE, KENMARE, CO KERRY

MIDLETON Farmers’ Market celebrated its fifth birthday at Whit weekend. Since it started, the growth of the Farmers’ Market Movement has been nothing short of phenomenal. There are now well over 100 markets in Ireland and others are opening at the rate of one a week.