When the shop in the townland of Bóthar Buí, opposite Carraig Church in west Kerry, closes its doors this evening, there will only be one retail outlet left between Slea Head and the foot of Mount Brandon.

A self-styled adventure junkie will have to avoid bandits and lions and endure searing desert heat on an epic 12,000km solo bike tour through Africa.

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

An old Irish church has been named alongside the Eiffel Tower and the Sydney’s Opera House as some of the coolest constructions on the planet.

We love to anthropomorphise the landscape — that is, to give human definition to an inanimate object.

Pádraig Ó Sé wasn’t even a teenager when An Ghaeltacht last graced Croke Park but that 2004 All-Ireland senior club final defeat to Caltra was one of those formative experiences.

Thirty-three years after gardaí failed to discover the killer and mother of a baby boy, the investigation is to be reactivated, writes Donal Hickey.

A garda review of the death of a baby whose murder is bound forever to one of the most divisive sagas in modern Irish history gets under way today.

A magnificent historic stone doorway, along with a 10-metre section of a large rampart, has fallen into the sea following weather damage to the cliff at the foot of a 2,500-year-old fort on the Slea Head drive in west Kerry, an archaeologist said yesterday.

A huge increase in tourist and leisure traffic in a remote valley in Kerry is putting lives at risk, a meeting has heard.

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

And photographer Richard Creagh captured some pics of the orca with the stunning Irish coastline as a backdrop.

It’s been a bumper season for whale, dolphin and shark watching with the animals spotted up and down our coasts.

It may be Star Wars: Episode VIII but this is the third successive year the Force has arrived in Kerry with its dramatic scenery hosting the Jedi the longest.

Today is the perfect day to take advantage of the quiet roads and pedal your way along some of Munster’s best cycling routes, says Dan MacCarthy

Saddle up to get a view of our magnificent landscape. There is simply no better way to appreciate our country says Dan MacCarthy

A home on Slea Head at Ventry in Co Kerry has benefitted from an architect-driven skilled redesign and makeover, says Tommy Barker.

The rain hasn’t dampened spirits in Dingle as it looks to become more than just a summer destination and has actually helped to boost the coffers in cafes and gift shops as tourists — and families in particular — abandon sightseeing and seek shelter instead

There’s a whole range of affordable Limerick, Cork, and Kerry homes coming up for sale in two weeks time, via the I Am Sold/Munster Property Auction method.

RECENTLY, for the umpteenth time, RTÉ again screened the David Lean epic, Ryan’s Daughter, filmed in the Dingle Peninsula, in 1969/’70.

One of the world’s rarest birds — once thought extinct for over 300 years — has been spotted off the Kerry coast.

Forget Seaworld, if you want to see whales and dolphins you need to go no further than West Cork to catch a spectacular marine show.

A retired detective inspector who was involved in the Kerry Babies investigation 30 years ago has called for the exhumation of the remains of both male infants for full DNA analysis.

Engineers are faced with an uphill battle to protect a 2,500-year-old stone fort, a section of which collapsed into the Atlantic after being undermined by coastal erosion.

Co Kerry has been scouted for film locations by Bollywood film executives.

As weather forecasts continue to suggest that 2013 will be the best summer the country has seen for years, four Irish Examiner writers profile their favourite beaches and hidden gems around the southern coastline.

IN their quest for food, humans do not recognise that all creatures are entitled to their share of Earth’s resources. Overfishing can deprive ocean predators, including whales and dolphins, of food.

Dingle manor has won numerous awards and would be ideal for family or other uses, Tommy Barker reports.

A man with a giant heart, Páidí Ó Sé is an irreplaceable loss in Ard a’ Bhothair, writes Diarmuid O’Flynn

HE was known as “Pio”.

THE RAIN, it rains on the just and the unjust. And has been doing so forever. Complaining about the weather in Ireland is like Mrs Lincoln complaining about the play.

IRELAND, especially the south and west coasts, is now regarded among the best places in the world for watching whales, dolphins, sharks and many other large sea creatures.

A large section of Mt Brandon in Co Kerry has slipped into the sea.

The need for urgent action to tackle a worsening coastal erosion problem at one of Kerry’s most popular beaches was highlighted yesterday.

SOME call it Dingle, others argue it’s An Daingean, but whatever the language there’s no denying the charm of this west Kerry town.

COUNTY Kerry will once again host the first major stage race of the Irish Cycle racing calendar in 2011 when the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan takes place over the Easter Weekend from Good Friday, April 22 to Easter Monday April 25.

Gardaí have confirmed that the body found off the Clare coast in recent days is that of a missing Kerry man.

Searches for a man missing off the Kerry coast will not be carried out today due to poor conditions.

A man is recovering in hospital in Belfast after being rescued from Fair Head in Antrim.

A search will resume later this morning for a missing man near Slea Head in Dingle, Co Kerry.

IN THEIR curmudgeonly moments, Kerry football supporters like to berate Mick O’Dwyer for his loyalty to the Golden Year greats at the expense of those hoping to prolong the Kingdom’s monopoly of the 70’s and 80’s.

A DOLPHIN and her young calf were put down by lethal injection. Repeated attempts to refloat them failed after the pair became stranded at Cockle Beach in Crookhaven.