A Killarney mother is turning “a family nightmare” — the murder of her eldest son — into a programme to teach children about the importance of caring in the community.

Two acres with planning permission for 16 houses are for sale in Killarney.

The curious case of the lost dog struck the Kerry footballers again this weekend when Eoin Brosnan’s pet pooch went missing.

A man who started a fire in an office at the Chief State Solicitors Office in 2005 for no apparent reason has been given a three-year sentence.

Gardaí on mountain bikes are to become a daily feature of life in Killarney National Park as concerns grow about public safety.

The mother of a teenager found stabbed to death in Killarney almost three years ago talked yesterday of the devastating effect the death of her eldest son has had on her family.

A 19-year-old student was found guilty of conspiring to assault a teenager two years ago on the night he died from a single stab wound.

Martin Ollo, the 19-year-old student accused of conspiring to assault teenager Stephen Lyne in June 2009 told how Shane Regan had “punched” Mr Lyne in the back.

A 19-year-old student on trial for conspiring to assault another teenager, who was found stabbed to death, had walked the boy home the previous night in order to protect him, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee heard from a prosecution witness yesterday.

This is the story of a Celtic footballer who jumped out of the Glasgow goldfish bowl, got two tickets to see Riverdance in Kerry, and ended up in Belfast.

Police are hunting a man after a woman was sexually assaulted in a house in west Belfast.

A TOWN council has been urged to acquire a listed Victorian building, once a picture postcard cottage, at the gateway to Killarney National Park.

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country

Two men have been left badly shaken after a burglary at a Belfast house.

Several homes were evacuated early today after two suspicious devices were found in the North, police said.

AN 18-year-old student appeared before Judge James O’Connor at Killarney District Court, yesterday, on two conspiracy charges surrounding the unlawful killing of teenager Stephen Lyne in the town last year.

A YOUTH who died after an accidental fall was described by garda sources as one of the main suspects in the murder of a teenager who was stabbed to death in Killarney in June 2009.

Gardaí in Co Kerry have arrested a teenager this morning in connection with the murder of Stephen Lyne in Killarney earlier this year.

Gardaí in Co Kerry have released two teenagers arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Stephan Lyne two weeks ago.

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the murder of Stephan Lyne in County Kerry almost two weeks ago.

Detectives were tonight investigating the murder of a 17-year-old less than a quarter of a mile from his family home.

Gardaí in the Co Kerry are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a teenager in Killarney in the early hours of this morning.

The jury trying two former IRA prisoners for an alleged blackmail plot against a couple of businessmen began its third day of deliberations today.

The jury trying two former IRA prisoners for an alleged blackmail plot against a couple of businessmen today began the second day of their deliberations.

TWO former IRA prisoners blackmailed businessmen in a bid to get a share of £6 million (€6.7m) said to have been raised using the name of the republican organisation, a court has heard.

KILLARNEY jarveys yesterday insisted they have always been available for talks with their local town council on the vexed horse dung issue.

A PLAN to close part of Killarney’s “golden mile” for eight weeks starting in mid-September is facing opposition from the tourism industry and local councillors.

PEOPLE in top tourist town Killarney can’t sleep because of noise from cars at all hours of the night, it has been claimed.

A YOUNG man was remanded yesterday in connection with the shooting of a doorman at a nightclub in Dublin at the weekend.

A Dublin man denied at the Special Criminal Court today that he was part of an IRA operation that gardaí foiled in September 2003.

A man shot six times in 2003 was killed because he stood up to dissident republicans, an inquest heard today.

THIS property at 50, Scrahan Mews sounds good. Not only does it have a perch on the salubrious Ross Road in Killarney, it also comes with a most unusual extra — a recording studio.

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.

AMID claims that people are living in fear of their houses being burgled, garda patrols in Killarney have been increased in the wake of up to 40 break-ins.

A MAN died following a crash in Co Wexford yesterday, bringing to 39 the number of people killed on the State’s roads so far this year.

HOME to beauty — that’s what’s on offer at the Ross Road, Killarney, this week where four exclusive sites hit the market at €500,000 apiece.

ENVIRONMENTAL groups will oppose any plans to build on a piece of prime land in Killarney which came on the market yesterday.

A young woman, believed to be in her late teens, died when the car in which she was a passenger hit a tree in Killarney, Co Kerry.

KILLARNEY Town Council has decided to rezone a controversial five-acre site, owned by the multi-millionaire McShain family, to allow for a luxury housing development.

Detectives hunting dissident republican killers seized a number of vehicles for forensic examination, it emerged today.

Police in the North have arrested a 42-year-old man in connection with the murder of Danny McGurk in west Belfast earlier this year.

A priest at the funeral of murdered west Belfast man Danny McGurk today labelled his killers the “devil’s disciples“.

DETECTIVES discovered a batch of arms and explosives in the possession of a Belfast taxi driver during their hunt for the killers of a father of six, a court heard yesterday.