The ordination of the first priest in the Diocese of Kerry in 11 years has been announced and is to take place in under two weeks’ time in north Kerry.

Dromid Pearses manager Declan O’Sullivan has taken issue with the venue for Sunday’s Munster club JFC final.

It was the second major cannabis seizure in the space of a week.

Cannabis with a street value of up to €350,000 has been seized in Kerry.

“Keep your child up as late as possible and fill him full of sugar,” was the unorthodox advice that Joanne Duffy received when struggling to secure a special needs assistant (SNA) for her son Ronan, who has Down Syndrome.

Two men charged with cutting turf on a protected bog, and who lost a High Court case aimed at stopping their prosecution, must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal.

A Co Kerry priest has lodged a complaint with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland over the “ridiculing of the Eucharist” on the Late Late Show, writes Anne Lucey in today's Irish Examiner.

A Co Kerry priest has lodged a complaint with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland over the “ridiculing of the Eucharist” on the Late Late Show.

People living near Dundalk may hold vital clues which could bring the killers of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe to justice, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has said.

Having looked likely to develop into a most frustrating sort, Swamp Fox is beginning to look like a professional winner, and the four-year-old produced another tremendous display to rout the opposition in the featured Liam Healy Memorial Lartigue Hurdle on day three of the Listowel Harvest Festival.

A young Irish legal eagle has been selected to work on a US miscarriage of justice project which helped highlight the Steven Avery case featured in the smash Netflix series, Making a Murderer.

The funeral has taken place in Moyvane, Co Kerry, of the former inter-county footballer Patrick (Paddy) Curtin who died on December 29, following a car crash shortly before Christmas while working in Guatemala.

Listowel Emmets 0-9 Brosna 1-6: All-Ireland Junior Club champions Brosna overturned a six-point deficit and forced Listowel veteran Noel Kennelly to kick an equalising point in this absorbing North Kerry SFC final in Moyvane yesterday.

Two men charged with cutting turf in a Co Kerry bog have launched a High Court action to stop their prosecution.

Homes and businesses without landline phones could be waiting for several weeks more for restoration of service, Eircom said yesterday.

More than 1,100 people have signed a petition opposing plans to erect wind turbines which would be taller than the Dublin Spire.

Gardaí at Listowel are appealing for witnesses following fatal road traffic collision in Co Kerry today.

They are ending up in pubs and gardens and are being adapted for many other purposes.

Kanturk teenager Ciarán Forde will pull on the green jersey to represent Ireland in the Power Soccer World Cup in Paris.

Killings were not common in Co Kerry’s past, but were often brutal — perhaps the influence of Civil War carnage, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

Two men accused of illegally cutting turf in an EU-protected bog face trial in the circuit court after a district judge declined jurisdiction.

British royal Zara Phillips is to be presented with a stunning drawing of herself and her horse Lord Lauries at Ballindenisk Horse Trials, Co Cork, this weekend.

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.

It’s the bonanza week that helps pay the rates and keeps bank managers at bay for businesses in Listowel.

PEOPLE in the Shannon Estuary village of Ballylongford yesterday described the closure of their local Garda station as another serious blow to a small community.

DROMID PEARSES star Declan O’Sullivan has warned his teammates they will have to improve their performances to win their All-Ireland JFC quarter-final against Birmingham in two weeks.

IT’S an extra pressure that Dromid Pearses could have done without.

A 33-year-old man has been jailed for life after admitting the double murder of a father and son in Kerry three years ago.

A FORMER school principal has been elected Mayor of Co Cork, while for the first time in 40 years a Labour man holds the chain of office in Kerry.

IT WAS the biggest and best sporting event in Ireland not just yesterday but all week.

A JURY in the trial of a Kerryman charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of a garda and a firefighter were last night discharged at Limerick Circuit Court after they could not agree on a verdict following three weeks of evidence.

TOM O’SULLIVAN still savours that morning after buzz, but it dissipates quicker when it’s an All-Ireland quarter-final.

A new trial date has been set by the Central Criminal Court for a man accused of the double murder of a father and son in Co. Kerry.

The trial of a man accused of the double murder of a father and son in County Kerry has had his trial adjourned at the Central Criminal Court.

A date has been set for the trial of a man charged with the murders of a father and son in Co Kerry.

A 30-YEAR-OLD man charged with the murder of a father and son is to get psychiatric help if he is deemed to need it, a court ordered yesterday.

MANY people were moved to tears yesterday, on hearing a touching family tribute to a father and son who were murdered a week yesterday.

The father and son shot dead at their home in Co Kerry last week are due to be laid to rest at Murher cemetery this afternoon.

The removals of the father and son shot dead in Co Kerry last week are due to take place in Listowel this evening.