By now, you have to look a little harder for them under fallen leaves but wild mushrooms are still on the ground and the picking season can continue into November.

Macroom TroutAnglers’ Alistair Earley was top rod in the Juvenile Lake Interprovincial trout fly angling competition fished at Lough Lein, Killarney.

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 opening of the salmon fishing season in Killarney, Co Kerry, yesterday was marked by protests by local anglers which followed similar protests recently in other parts of the country.

FEARS of an algal bloom in Lough Lein, Killarney, have prompted Kerry County Council to erect warning signs along its shores.