A burglar who broke into the home of a Kerry man in his 70s, causing minor criminal damage, has been told to provide €5,000 compensation “to make amends”.

A copyright case against the Fine Gael MEP and former president of the GAA Sean Kelly by a photographer in Co Kerry has been settled, the district court in Killarney was told yesterday.

A copyright case involving Fine Gael MEP and former GAA president Seán Kelly and a photographer will involve copyright issues with "potential, serious ramifications for the media", solicitor for the press photographer Michelle-Cooper Galvin said.

Rural people were being “intimidated” by townspeople moving into the countryside, a woman claimed at the Circuit Civil Court in Tralee yesterday during a dispute over a right of way and the opening and closing of gates at the edge of the Killarney National Park.

The HSE has sincerely apologised for its various failings in its treatment of a 44-year-old father of three who died after severe brain injuries he sustained following surgery he underwent at a Co Kerry hospital on a broken wrist.