A new multiplex cinema is to open in Killarney, Co Kery on the former site of one of the town’s best-known hotels.

A Galway man who conned an unsuspecting shop assistant in Killarney into buying “out-of-date contraceptive devices” has been given the Probation Act.

Changes to residents’ permits, the relocation of town jarveys, and the creation of a bypass through a residential area in Killarney are among suggestions aimed at resolving chronic traffic delays in the Kerry tourist town.

A cattle dealer arrested during a rally weekend in Killarney, Co Kerry, after driving at 120kph through the town in the early hours is to pay €5,000 to the court poor box and is to have a speed limiter fitted to all vehicles he drives.

A shop worker in England has been attacked with a machete in a violent robbery caught on camera.

Homes and business owners are beginning to count the cost as the latest 120km/h winds batter the west and south coasts.

Motorists are being advised to take care on the roads this morning following heavy overnight rain in many parts.

Two men have been arrested in connection with a robbery at a service station in Waterford earlier this evening.

One of Killarney’s hey-day 1960s hotel success stories has come back up for sale after several bouts of redevelopment.

A prime development site in Killarney, Co Kerry is on the market for €3m, nine years after it changed hands for nearly €8m.

A plan is to be drawn up for a large, disused industrial site with the aim of creating jobs in Co Kerry at a time when unemployment in the area is rising.

A CONVICTED killer who had bitten off part of a man’s ear during an earlier dispute and posted it through the victim’s letterbox in an envelope some days later has been jailed for four years.

ONE of the earliest films made by British master director Alfred Hitchcock has been found in New Zealand, researchers said.

New to market west Cork home is handily placed in Dunmanway, Tommy Barker reports

A YOUNG award-winning history graduate who was returning from Belfast after a volunteer training programme miraculously walked away from the horror crash “just covered in muck” and with only minor injuries.

A PRISON officer, said by a judge to have been responsible for a “colossal breach of trust” for smuggling drugs and other contraband into Limerick prison was yesterday jailed for five years at Limerick Circuit Court.

A man has appeared in court charged in connection with an assault in Longford Town on New Year's Eve.

A man is due in court today charged in connection with an assault in Longford Town on New Year's Eve.

GARDAÍ have questioned two people after a 60-year-old man died following an alleged assault in Longford.

SEVERAL hundred households were without power last night after the ESB was forced to cut off power because of safety concerns.

GARDAÍ are appealing for help to catch three different gangs involved in a spate of robberies and break-ins in Co Cork.

SOME residents of Kerry towns “plagued” by boy racers have had to buy ear sealants and headache tablets to shut out the late night noise, it was claimed yesterday.

FIFTY passengers had to be rescued from a bus after it became semi-submerged in flood water that deluged a north Cork town.

A SUBSIDIARY of Dairygold has been granted planning permission for a €100 million mixed-use development in Mallow, which is expected to create up to 400 jobs.

BUSINESS owners and householders were left counting the cost yesterday as large parts of Mallow and Fermoy in Co Cork were under water after serious flooding.

IN her letter (July 14), Jackie O’Sullivan rightly complains about cars parked on footpaths and dangers to pedestrians, including parents with kids in buggies.

Gardaí in Co Kerry have begun a search for two men who held up a video store in Killarney.

FASHION tycoon, Sean Barron, has made a €6.5 million settlement with the Revenue Commissioners after admitting to evading tax.

JOBS before houses was the message sent by Cork County Council to Greencore yesterday, as the local authority examined a blueprint for growth in Mallow up to 2020.

A nurse accused of assaulting and poisoning two hospital patients has been convicted on one of four charges.

The State pathologist has told a jury that an elderly man who was allegedly poisoned by a nurse died of heart failure that was not related to an injection he received from the accused.

A LOCAL authority may have to seek a compulsory purchase order to prevent Mallow losing its town park to two brothers, one of whom is a former equerry and private secretary to the late Princess Diana.

SEVEN houses were burgled in the Killarney area during the weekend, bringing to more than 50 the number of break-ins in the area since November, despite extra garda patrols.

Police hunting a dangerous paedophile who snatched a six-year-old girl issued a description today of the man they want to talk to and details of where he may have taken her.

THE Kerry branch of An Taisce and residents have voiced concerns about the traffic implications of a major shopping project earmarked for Killarney.

GARDAÍ in Waterford have warned residents to be vigilant when dealing with door-to-door callers following a series of break-ins at a number of houses in the city.

A NEW €5 million 4Home store, a subsidiary of Dairygold Co-op, opened in Mallow, Co Cork, at the weekend.

IT was first time lucky for glamorous secondary school teacher Emily O’Keeffe, winner of the Queen of Fashion competition at Killarney Races, yesterday.

DAIRYGOLD is considering plans for retail, hotel, office and amenity developments at its 17-acre town centre site at Park Road in Mallow.

A LOCAL authority forced to take back almost 40 tonnes of waste found dumped illegally in the North is taking legal action against the company alleged to have transported the refuse across the Border.

THE owner of one of the oldest petrol filling stations in Killarney, Co Kerry, yesterday claimed he had been forced out of business mainly because he could not compete with a new cut-price Tesco station.