A pledge by a descendant of a family that ruled Tralee for 300 years is to be fulfilled: Dorset-based stained-glass artist Tom Denny, a descendant of the Elizabethan planter, Edward Denny, is to complete a window for the town’s St John’s Catholic church.

As she prepares to mark the first anniversary of her son Jake’s death, Roseann Brennan said it is something she will never get over.

A member of a leading political family, also a prominent golfer and golf-course designer, treated rich and poor just the same, mourners at his funeral were told yesterday.

Dublin has gone green for Patrick’s Day, with festivities culminating in a street party tomorrow, expected to attract more than 500,000 spectators. 

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Even the sky in Kerry was dressed in gold late yesterday as the team train pulled into Casement station carrying two sets of victors home.

Even the sky in Kerry was dressed in gold late yesterday as the victorious All-Ireland senior and minor footballers teams’ train pulled into Casement station in Tralee.

The devastated parents of Jake Brennan released two doves into the sky at his funeral yesterday as they continued to struggle to come to terms with his death.

LIMERICK’s designation as the country’s first National City of Culture in 2014 will see it host over 200 performances and exhibitions, spanning all arts forms.

Former taoiseach Brian Cowen and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin were among hundreds of mourners who gathered yesterday to pay tribute at the funeral of former minister Noel Davern, who died suddenly at the weekend.

The recently launched Limerick Arts Encounter is an initiative aimed at enabling the city’s arts practitioners to deliver a varied programme with funding from the Arts Council.

If ever a funeral was a celebration of life, this was it.

AT the end of a short life marked by the warrior spirit, it was only appropriate Dónal Walsh’s passing was sealed with a haka.

It was the young people among the mourners that seemed most affected by the death of the inspirational and rugby-loving Dónal Walsh.

Rose Martin says if you happen to be shopping for an utterly, idiosyncratic house in the city, then lift the knocker

AN estimated 2,000 mourners lined the streets of Tralee on Saturday to pay tribute to legendary big band jazz musician Billy Curtin who passed away after an illness.

A series of aftershocks rattled New Zealand’s quake-devastated city of Christchurch again today.

A series of strong earthquakes shook the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch today, briefly trapping two people inside a church.

PÁDRAIG KENNELLY, the photographer, television cameraman and founder of the Kerry’s Eye newspaper, has died at his home in Tralee at the age of 82.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and President Mary McAleese were represented by their respective aides-de-camp at the funeral yesterday of former GAA president Pat Fanning in Waterford.

The murder of a Catholic community worker beaten to death by a Protestant mob in the North was primitive, premeditated evil, a priest told mourners at his funeral today.

Two brothers being questioned in connection with an attack on two young boys had recently been placed in foster care, a council confirmed today.

Jade Goody nursed an imaginary baby in her arms as she lay dying, her widower said today.

Jade Goody’s two sons will not attend her funeral, it was reported today.

Terminally-ill reality TV star Jade Goody was resting today after an emotional christening ceremony in hospital.

The death of a teenager on a railway line in the North is being treated as murder, police said today.

WEIGHTY issues like the presidential inauguration and the economic stimulus package are pending, but the first order of business for president-elect Barack Obama’s family is to get settled in Washington quickly to prepare for the start of school for his two daughters.

A YOUNG woman from the outskirts of Limerick city is fighting for her life after a freak accident at a ski resort in the US involving a snow plough.

MUCH-LOVED Christie Hennessy never drank alcohol and was yesterday held out as an example to all facing the challenges of a drugs culture.

“HE WAS a family man first and a fisherman second; he loved his family.”

FULL of joy and love and smiling right up to the moment he became a hero.

THOUSANDS of mourners last night accompanied a man who died in a sea rescue tragedy, last weekend, on his final journey.

ONE of Waterford city’s proudest parishes is being forced to ask its mainly elderly congregation to dig even deeper and help save their Church’s magnificent stained glass windows.

Soldiers of The Black Watch joined family, friends and townspeople today to pay tribute to a soldier killed in action in Iraq.

President Bush vowed victory in the “first great struggle of a new century” today as he led the United States in marking shattering terrorist attacks of one year ago.