The main road, the R569 between Kilgarvan village and Killarney has been closed due to a land slippage in the wake of Storm Ciara, Kerry County Council has announced.

There are 624 approved applicants currently on the county council housing list in the area which includes most of the Ring of Kerry. Half are single persons.

Carol O’Callaghan continues her round-up of home interior shops in country towns and the outer reaches of our cities, finding more treasure troves which offer something new and a touch of exclusivity

Kenmare Bay and the Caha Mountains surround this stunning cottage-style property built into the hillside, writes Trish Dromey.

Faced with stone from Sneem, facing down to Derrynane and Kenmare Bay, and facing up to Dark Sky Reserve stars and nighttime galaxies via a diamond-shaped feature window, all to a musical backdrop of bass notes heard through open doors from an Art Deco baby grand piano once owned by booming-voiced English actor Brian Blessed... truly, there’s a lot going on to engage the senses at Arcadia.

For a variety of reasons, any large tracts of land that come up on or near the Ring of Kerry get plenty of attention from both the media and those in the farming community.

From the Taj Mahal to Tahilla, Francis Brennan’s TV Grand Tours have always ended at this Ring of Kerry retreat, says Tommy Barker.

Caherdaniel, the home of the 19th century Liberator Daniel O’Connell, is also one of a number of coastal villages and towns without any public sewerage and waste water treatment.

Esther McCarthy meets the people whose job it is to give tourists that special Irish welcome.

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.

From whale-watching and open farms to zoos, Marjorie Brennan looks at some of the options for animal-centred days out.

A State fisheries body has succeeded in stopping the development of holiday homes on the Ring of Kerry over fears it could cause pollution to a local river.

Boy-racers have been told to stay home this weekend by gardaí covering the annual Rally of the Lakes in Killarney.

Signs of recovery are being felt throughout the Munster housing market — but inflation is inconsistent throughout the region, writes Kevin O'Neill

An environmental group has expressed concern that construction work by Irish Water is posing a threat to ancient rock carvings on the Ring of Kerry.

If you are a golfer and you don’t know Tom Coyne, then you’ve been living under a rock.

Mallow Castle, the Ring of Kerry and Lough Gur are among 78 outdoor recreation projects which are to share an €11 million investment in greenways, blueways and walking trails around the country.

Ciara McDonnell rounds up 10 walks to blow the cobwebs away on New Year’s Day.

According to the Irish Mirror, the 35-year-old RTE presenter is due early next year.

A national pollinator award picked up at the National Tidy Towns has a Kerry village buzzing again.

One-way systems are being introduced in Kerry for some of the country’s most crowded tourist routes.

The Sustainable Seafood Garden hooked the top prize at Bloom yesterday.

Up to 60,000 people will be in Killarney, Co Kerry, this weekend for the annual Cartell.ie international Rally of the Lakes.

Kerry County Council has taken another step towards the development of a cycling greenway on the Ring of Kerry that it hopes will become a major tourist attraction.

They've been abandoning higher ground.

The office of a Fianna Fáil TD has been vandalised by what appears to be members of the pro-life campaign.

Beach lovers and commercial fish farmers are gearing up for a further battle over a planned shoreline industry in Co Kerry.

A court sitting in Kerry took place in the private residence of the district court judge yesterday, where several cases involving special sittings have been heard over the Christmas period.

While almost €18 million has been announced for road works in Kerry, a row has broken out as the vast bulk of the money has been allocated for improvement works in south and west Kerry.

A Victorian mansion on the Ring of Kerry, which was seized and sold in 2000 by the Criminal Assets Bureau, has just sold once more, for less than what it made in a raw, abandoned state 17 years ago.

‘Traffic bottlenecks’ are developing on the Wild Atlantic Way tourist route in peak season. Fáilte Ireland has said long delays and capacity issues are “negatively affecting the visitor experience”, according to an internal brief.

Our coastal islands possess fascinating stories but the almost countless islands on Irish lakes have their fair share of stories too: an abandoned hippy colony on Roeillaun in Lough Corrib Co Galway; a round tower sacked by the Vikings on Devenish Island, Co Fermanagh. 

As the summer draws to a close it is useful to consider the impact of tourism on the economy. More particularly we can sometimes draw lessons and analogies from the tourism sector to the wider economy.

Kerry is open for business and tourism but there are issues around parking, traffic, dog fouling, and rubbish, writes Anne Lucey

DON’T use the weather as an excuse. Get out there, says Donal Hickey. 

Tommy Barker reports on a west Waterford property that has been massively upgraded despite only being originally built in 2004

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Killarney vintners are applying for special early opening times on Sunday morning, for the first time, as the town prepares to welcome 100,000 visitors in what is expected to be one of the busiest weekends of the year.

Majella O’Sullivan travels the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle route, and goes off the beaten track to meet some of the charities that will benefit from the event.