Bantry House/ St Brendan’s Church

GALLARUS AND KILMALKEDAR, DINGLE

Residents in a housing estate with excessive lead levels in their water supply have been advised by a local authority not to drink the water.

The long and sometimes rocky road to Hollywood began in simple schoolboy settings for actor Michael Fassbender, 36, nominated for an Oscar tomorrow night for his role in 12 Years a Slave.

Walkers have been advised to stay away from unsafe ledges and areas where land slippage has occurred on Mt Brandon in Co Kerry.

In one week, 109 works from the past six centuries will be performed at chamber music festival, says Declan Townsend

That the Government is to proceed with legislation to protect so-called “whistleblowers” who seek to expose wrong-doing in either the public or private sectors, is to be welcomed.

It MIGHT be flippant to suggest that conditions at the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) are ‘crazy’, but before long we could be wondering if some of those responsible for those conditions are not in need of treatment themselves.

HUNDREDS of people took part in a protest march to assert what they say is a traditional right of way on Fenit Island, a scenic and historic island off the coast of Kerry, yesterday.

WHEN St Brendan, one of the great figures of early Irish monasticism, left Kerry’s Brandon Creek in the early years of the fifth century on his seven-year voyage to try to discover Paradise, he must have had many supporters who wished him nothing but the very best though they did not have any great comprehension of where he was going, why he was going or what he might discover.

The High Court has granted permission to a man to bring proceedings aimed at preventing his trial for the murder of two women in Dublin 13 years ago in the well-known "Grangegorman murders" case.

A taxi driver hasn’t worked since being left with serious head injuries after he was attacked outside a church by a man who had consumed cannabis and alcohol and wasn’t happy about the price of his fare.

THE Bishop of Kerry, Dr Bill Murphy, has urged people, especially parents, to encourage vocations in young people.

It is ironic that on the day that the Garda Commissioner should choose to respond to the Morris reports, another into the case of a man wrongfully charged with the murders of two women was published.

TARA, here I am. I have come all the way from Kerry to be with you before the vultures, with bulldozers and JCBs, open your lower belly. They are impatient to inflict the wounds.

A sculpture to honour an Irish archbishop murdered in Burundi in 2003 will be unveiled in Co Galway this weekend, it emerged tonight.

There are references to watercress in many early Irish manuscripts. It formed part of the diet of hermits and holy men who valued its special properties.

HEALTH care facilities worth up to €150 million are lying idle around the country because of government funding shortages.

Dr. James McDaid, T.D., Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation announced