As its name suggests, ‘Aisling’ at Ardagh, Loreto Road, Killarney, is the stuff dreams are made of and so much more, writes Eve Kelliher

The OPW has removed visitor books from historical sites across the country amid fears about running foul of data protection laws.

One of the busiest stretches of the N71 tourist route the Ring of Kerry, will close for almost two weeks at the height of the tourist season later this month.

A private nursing home in Cork has been criticised by the State's health care services' watchdog for failing to ensure that “an effective and safe service” was provided for residents.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s Government had, after we were told that one million species are in danger of extinction, a sort of Pauline conversion.

Additional car and bus parking to cater for the large numbers of visitors to Muckross House, a protected area one of the southwest’s most popular tourist attractions in the 10,000-hectare Killarney National Park has been given the go-ahead.

An archaelogist who plans to create a craft last used by our forebearers more than a millennium ago is getting a dig out for his “dugout” boat from people from all corners of the world.

Objections have been raised to halt the expansion of facilities at a one of Kerry’s most popular tourist attractions.

Two súgán chairs, a súgán egg basket, and other straw-made items are on their way to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall after a visit to Muckross traditional farms in Killarney last week.

From one kingdom to another, the Prince of Wales hailed his visit to Kerry yesterday as “remarkable”, after fulfilling a long-time ambition to see what is considered to be Ireland’s most beautiful county.

This week I’m focusing on summer active days. I’m sharing my top days out plus my all-time favourite breakfast, overnight oats.

Either the Cork camp is reading from the same script or they genuinely believe that victory over a top-six outfit will lift the dark clouds and reinstate them as a leading football force.

LIKELY to be chased as a trophy Killarney purchase, as either a hotel with further potential, or as an extraordinary private residence once more, is the 38-bedroomed Victorian timepiece Cahernane House Hotel, on the Muckross Road in Killarney.

The largest event of its kind in the world, Killarney Adventure Race, welcomed record numbers of 2,500 participants this year.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has found 173 items from the State’s art collection have been identified as missing — including 44 from the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Killarney Adventure Race 2015 will take place in the picturesque tourist town of Killarney on October 3rd.

Dublin aside, there are more hotel and B&B beds in Killarney than in any other Irish town. It more than deserves its tourism status, says Tony Clayton-Lea.

Millions of TV viewers in the US last night watched the latest episode of a hit romantic reality series filmed against a background of spectacular Irish scenery.

Scenic landmarks in the south-west are due to make yet another screen appearance before millions of viewers in the US.

As wild fires raged near Killarney, Anne Lucey was one of the residents living in fear

Susan O’Shea sets up base camp at Muckross Park Hotel and comes away as liberated as a former guest, The Liberator.

Breda Joy has written a celebration of Kerry. Donal Hickey on a fine contribution to the county’s rich heritage.

Plans to develop a stately home and 400-acre park into one of the country’s top tourist attractions have already received a major boost.

Five concerts? Forget Garth Brooks — Daniel O’Donnell is your only man.

Singing legend Daniel O’Donnell is to be honoured for his contribution to the multi-million-euro tourism industry in Killarney, Co Kerry.

A horse-drawn tradition will survive in one of the country’s premier tourist destinations, despite fierce competition from other transport providers.

SCARCELY a week passes without news of yet another invasive species, plant or animal, reaching our shores.

The best things in life are free, says Travel Writer of the Year Pól Ó Conghaile — and he’s got the proof here.

Speaking at the History of Hurling one-day seminar held at The Schoolhouse venue at Muckross House in Killarney last Saturday, one of the most stylish forwards of his era reflected on a 19-year senior inter-county career.

A four-part series on the wildlife at Killarney National Park airs on TV3 tomorrow night at 8pm. It will include rare action footage of some of the wildlife.

A project to honour a man whose family presented Muckross House and 11,000 acres, which are now make up a large part of Killarney National Park, to the nation has been launched in Killarney.

MUCKROSS WALK, KILLARNEY

The minister responsible for the OPW Brian Hayes has said planning permission will be lodged within the next two weeks to refurbish and open the ground floor of a Georgian mansion in north Cork which is hoped will one day rival Muckross House as a tourist attraction.

Some of the world’s most popular bloggers were eating, drinking and sightseeing their way around Cork and Kerry for the past few days.

A development group is hoping to get €4m funding to do up three unique gardens at a stately home in North Cork.

It was apt that Killarney National Park should look its most blooming yesterday for an occasion to celebrate the life of someone whose family’s generosity led to its creation.

The descendants of the great houses of the South-West, whose social life once revolved around each other, gathered for the first time in more than 100 years at Muckross House in Killarney over the weekend.

So what was life really like inside the ‘Downton Abbeys’ of Ireland?

The first sod, albeit frozen, was turned yesterday on a €750,000 “replica schoolhouse” which will complete a traditional folk farm — itself frozen in the 1930s — at one of the State’s key tourist attractions in the southwest.

A leading industrialist, whose companies continue to increase employment despite the recession, was honoured in Killarney, Co Kerry, last night.