A Tralee motorist was banned from driving for four years yesterday for careless driving causing the death of a retired nurse who was described in loving terms as the anchor of her extended family.

A woman with 151 previous convictions has been jailed for five months after she stole €900 from a “shy, introverted” man she had befriended on a bus.

Offaly Rose Jennifer Byrne has been named the winner of the 59th International Rose of Tralee.

It’s a feat that came in very useful to east Berliners defecting to the West — being concealed in suitcases — and Limerick Rose Kayleigh Maher has discovered she, too, can fit into her enormous suitcase in the unlikely event of her requiring an escape route from Tralee, Co Kerry.

Sandra Mahon didn’t set out to make history in her job as a food demonstrator, but she did just that in relation to employment law.

Gardaí are hunting for a suspected drink driver after they found an empty vodka bottle in a car which was left abandoned after it struck a wall.

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is an Irish language poet from Tralee, Co Kerry. She co-presents arts show Imeall with Tristan Rosenstock on TG4 on Thursdays.

Rose of Tralee contestant Jane Harrison tries to say yes to all life experiences now because she put off living for so long.

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A mystery American golfer stunned locals in a popular bar in Tralee, Co Kerry when he spent around €4,500 in about two hours tipping staff and buying drinks.

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The jury in the trial of a man accused of murder after an argument over a game of backgammon will begin their deliberations tomorrow at the Central Criminal Court.

A witness at the trial of a Georgian man accused of murder failed to identify the accused when presented with his photograph, the Central Criminal Court heard Friday.

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She misses him and “everything about him” every day. But Donal Walsh is still inspiring people, his mother Elma tells Clodagh Finn.

The lights are up, the cameras are ready, and the action is waiting to burst onto the streets.

Up to 100 staff at one of the country’s largest windfarm service providers, Enercon, are to stage a 72-hour work stoppage at locations throughout Ireland in a dispute over pay and conditions.

A sex offender who held talent show auditions to gain access to children has been jailed for 10 months.

A cyclist who was badly hurt and feared he would be trampled after two horses bolted from a field during a charity cycle has received over €50,000 in damages.

Irish sailor Brian Carlin had a lucky escape over the weekend when his team’s yacht in the Volvo Ocean Race hit a reef in the Indian Ocean, forcing the crew to abandon to life rafts.

We are stuck in a nightmare, says grieving sister of slain Jolanta

Health insurance provider Aviva is in hot water after sending insensitive material to the parents of two deceased children.

It was important that a Dublin man who was previously jailed for the false imprisonment of two women — including a horrific attack on a young graduate in the Dublin mountains in 2006 — be monitored, the Circuit Criminal Court in CrTalee was told yesterday.

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Most accommodation in Tralee, Co Kerry, for the 2014 Rose festival, which gets under way later this week, has been snapped up.

Weekend food columnist and McKenna’s Guide contributing editor Joe McNamee is back with his annual accolades. Read on for his best in fine dining, pub grub, afternoon tea and much more, in Cork and around the country.

Mobile phone technology could prevent needless 999 call-out tragedies where emergency crews cannot find the caller because they were given the wrong information.

One of Kerry’s most colourful Fianna Fáil figures, Dan Kiely, 69, has resigned from the party.

Kids are building their technology skills as schools sign up in their hundreds to a digital teaching programme.

A farmer co-operative which invested €1.2m in a wind farm company is entitled to be paid arrears of dividends over a three-year period, the High Court has ruled.

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Working in a pharmacy in southern Chad is definitely a challenge compared to home.

The widow of murdered garda, Adrian Donohoe, has spoken publicly for the first time about the devastating impact of her husband’s violent death on her family.

Laughter will be the best medicine on board the world’s first interactive children’s ambulance, which will travel the roads of Ireland taking the trauma out of a little one’s hospital visit.

Calls have been made for a return to a local ambulance call-out system following another mix-up involving the new centralised service in Dublin.