Place: Macgillycuddy

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Robocut demo on the Reeks

It can be used to manage vegetation like bracken, or dense, encroaching gorse, or to cut mature heather that is coming to the end of its life cycle.

Mr Griffin claims the defendants were negligent and breach of duty in the organisation of the team-building exercise when, among other reasons, they ought to have known it was dangerous. File picture.

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Man claims he was left severely disabled after fall on team building exercise

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Marginal ring ouzel could be next to disappear

Have we too many tourists?

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LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: Man charged after Cork father-of-two dies in Australia; Hiker lost in Macgillycuddy Reeks taken to hospital

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South Kerry takes the brunt of storm-force winds

Race named in honour of footballer Colm Cooper at Killarney Races

Kerry Gaelic footballer Colm Cooper had a race named after him at the Killarney Races July Festival yesterday.

Tue, 18 Jul, 2017

Attitudes to boglands seem to be changing

THE other day, I revisited a bog near the Cork/Kerry border where we used to cut turf to burn at home until about 35 years ago, writes Donal Hickey. 

Mon, 26 Jun, 2017

This Co Kerry home has space, views and half an acre of gardens

Trish Dromey eyes up a spacious home in Beaufort which won’t hang around on the market for very long.

Sat, 11 Feb, 2017

Finian McGrath rejects pleas to keep facility for disabled people open

Moving an adult with an intellectual disability out of congregated settings “works for the vast majority of people” says minister of state with responsibility for disability, Finian McGrath, who added he is very much committed to the policy.

Fri, 13 Jan, 2017

Check out the view with this drone footage on Ireland's highest peak

Not many of us get the chance to see the view from the tallest mountain.

Wed, 11 Jan, 2017

Interest building for attractive 72 acres in Killarney

For sale jointly with Killarney auctioneers Ken O’Sullivan and Brian O’Leary, a 72-acre holding in the townland of Headford near Barraduff is attracting some interest from a variety of sources.

Thu, 15 Dec, 2016

Tip top views from Hilltop Cottage on the Beara Peninsula

Trish Dromey extols the virtues of a traditional Irish farmhouse with Gallic flair on the Beara peninsula.

Sat, 15 Oct, 2016

Prolonged torrential rain causes chaos in Kerry with flooded roads and major bridges impassable

Landslides, flooded roads, and major bridges which were impassable for the first time in recent memory were recorded in Kerry after torrential rainfall in coastal and mountainous areas overnight on Monday and for most of yesterday.

Wed, 05 Oct, 2016

99 acres for sale at Lisleibane at the foot of Carrauntuohill

A substantial piece of farmland in Kerry is due to fall under the auctioneer’s hammer next month.

Thu, 09 Jun, 2016

‘Honesty box’ to pay for maintenance of Kerry mountain

Hillwalkers using Ireland’s highest mountain are to be asked to put money in an ‘honesty box’ when they park their cars.

Tue, 07 Apr, 2015

MacGillycuddy Reeks

Continuous use of one of the country’s most panoramic landscapes by tens of thousands of enthusiasts is giving rise to worsening erosion.

Wed, 31 Dec, 2014

You need ropes and cable cars down here

To be resourceful is, according to the dictionary, to be ingenious, capable and full of initiative.

Thu, 18 Sep, 2014

Hundreds sign petition over lack of mobile phone coverage at Christmas

Whole swathes of the southwest were left without mobile phone coverage over Christmas, it has emerged.

Sat, 05 Jan, 2013

Moutain rescue enroute to injured hillwalker in Macgillycuddy Reeks

Kerry Mountain Rescue team are enroute to a woman who fell this afternoon on the Macgillycuddy Reeks.

Tue, 01 Jan, 2013

Man airlifted off Kerry coast

A man is receiving hospital treatment after being airlifted off the coast of Kerry earlier this evening.

Sat, 27 Oct, 2012

School under review after mass exodus of pupils

The “learning environment” at a picturesque valley school is being examined following a dramatic drop in pupil numbers after parents enrolled their children at other schools.

Thu, 13 Sep, 2012

Safety warning as rescue rate up

A LONG-AWAITED improvement in the weather following the rain-sodden summer seems to have unleashed a burning desire in many people to head for the hills.

Mon, 17 Sep, 2007

Teenager feared dead after jet ski accident

The family of a teenager presumed dead after coming off a jet ski in a lake in the west of Ireland were tonight waiting on the shore for his body to be recovered.

Sun, 06 Aug, 2006

Tributes paid to hotelier who died in fall

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to leading hotelier Gerry O’Connor, who died in a fall on the MacGillycuddy Reeks in Co Kerry on Monday.

Wed, 05 Jan, 2005

Kerry rescuers still searching for missing tourist

The search resumes this morning for a 22-year-old man missing in Macgillycuddy's Reeks.

Sun, 02 Jan, 2005