DON’T use the weather as an excuse. Get out there, says Donal Hickey. 

In the first of an occasional series journalist and cycling enthusiast, Dan MacCarthy, highlights some of the great cycling routes of Munster. This week, The Adrigole Circuit.

Some of the events taking place across Cork to commemorate the centenary of the Rising include:

SEÁN O’Hegarty had charge of 30 Volunteers who marched from different directions to Kealkill, where the plan had been to take control of the local Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) barracks.

BUNAW PIER-KILMAKILLOGE HARBOUR, BEARA, CO KERRY

A BRILLIANT summer to date will reach a high point this bank holiday weekend with tens of thousands of people on holidays, and those not on holidays taking to the outdoors to enjoy beaches, forests, parks, mountains and lakes.

Gardaí are investigating a break-in at the home of the Kerry South TD Michael Healy-Rae on the outskirts of Kilgarvan. The incident occurred in broad daylight but the thieves fled after being disturbed.

Walkers, hikers, and ramblers are being urged to come out and walk in aid of cancer research this July.

GLANMORE LAKE WALK, BEARA PENINSULA

LEHID BRIDGE, KENMARE, CO KERRY

Walkers, hikers and ramblers are being urged to put on their walking boots this month in aid of cancer research.

People living in the countryside should to be able to apply for gun licences to protect themselves and their property, according to a rural TD.

Three rural Kerry parishes where Garda stations have been closed were targeted by an opportunist gang of thieves in the past week during a crime spree which involved raids on five separate public houses.

Some parts of Kerry will now be more than an hour away from their nearest 24-hour Garda station, following the closure of nine stations in the county, some of which had been there since the days of the Royal Irish Constabulary in the 19th century.

A Garda staff association has expressed serious concern at how the force in Cork City is going to cope after it was left with just one 24-hour station for the whole city.

ONE has climbed Everest twice and walked to the South Pole. The other has eight All-Ireland senior football medals and nine All-Star awards.

AN experienced detective has been appointed to investigate the illegal poisoning of protected eagles in Co Kerry, Gardaí confirmed yesterday.

HOLLAND have two of the race favourites at this weekend’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan and while neither figured in yesterday’s opening stage, their rookie compatriot Robert-Jan Mol (West Frisia Combilift), stepped up the steal the limelight.

EVERYONE has heard of the Irish red deer that grace Killarney National Park, not to mention eagles and dolphins, but Kerry also has many other rare and threatened species of animal and plant life.

The five-year-old boy killed in a freak accident in Co Kerry yesterday has been named.

A post mortem is to be carried out in Co Kerry today on the body of a five-year-old boy who was killed in a freak accident when his donkey bolted.