The Garda Commissioner has announced the appointments of 11 newly-promoted senior officers and the transfer of seven Garda bosses, in a major reshuffle of top brass.

A man has died after being struck by a car in Co. Kerry.

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.

A tense four-hour standoff involving a woman who refused to leave a Halal shop in the centre of Tralee ended peacefully shortly before 8pm Friday night.

The head of a children’s charity and the manager of a Galway-based company have told of their encounters with conwoman Julia Holmes, who is believed to have been found dead with her partner Tom Ruttle in their home in Askeaton, Co Limerick, on Monday morning.

Two brothers have gone on trial at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee accused of recklessly or intentionally causing serious harm to their uncle at his home in Kerry almost four years ago.

Gardaí have appealed for witnesses to the crash which claimed the life of a German man in Kerry on Saturday night.

A 24-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene when his car hit a wall on the main Tralee to Listowel road near the village of Kilflynn shortly before 10pm on Saturday night.

A pedestrian in her 60's has died following a collision in Co Kerry.

A man is due in court later this morning in connection with a stabbing which left another man and his 17-year-old son injured in Co Kerry.

A man has been charged in connection with a stabbing which left another man and his 17-year-old son injured in Co Kerry.

A man has been arrested over a stabbing which left a man and his 17-year-old son injured in Co Kerry.

Three people have been arrested and a firearm seized following a series of garda raids in Kerry this morning.

The national chairwoman of the Federation for Victim Assistance has said the trial of a 28-year-old Lithuanian man found guilty of murdering a mother and daughter was the most difficult she had attended in 20 years.

A man in his 40s was arrested by gardaí yesterday following an alleged sexual assault in the build-up to the Rose of Tralee festival.

Two men are due to appear in court this morning in relation to the seizure of more than €2m worth of cannabis plants.

Three cannabis factories with plants reckoned to be worth more than €2m have been raided by gardaí.

Gardaí at Tralee are investigating the discovery of Cannabis plants with a value in excess of €1m.

Three articulated truck drivers have been remanded in custody for two days at a Garda station following a complaint from a member of the public about a YouTube video in which they drove their huge trucks three abreast along the main Limerick to Tralee road last year.

The son of a man abducted by masked men 22 years ago has made a fresh television appeal for any information which would help find his father’s body.

A man has been arrested after drugs with an estimated street value of €140,000 were seized in Co Kerry.

Two people were still being questioned last night by gardaí in connection with the murder of a 58-year-old man near Killorglin, Co Kerry, more than a year ago.

A man was being questioned in Tralee Garda station last night after the seizure of drugs with a street value of almost €300,000 at Kerry Airport.

Gardaí in Kerry’s county town have come up with a strategy to prevent the targeting of vulnerable people, especially the elderly, for large sums of cash.

Four kid goats were brutally slaughtered in the back garden of a built-up housing estate and only swift action by the authorities prevented a fifth from suffering a similar ordeal.

Two men were charged at Newcastle West District Court in Co Limerick yesterday with the murder of a Brazilian man whose body was found in a bog in North Kerry on Sunday.

GARDAÍ investigating a serious assault on a pensioner, who was attacked as he made his way home from his local pub, have arrested and questioned two youths.

GARDAÍ have described the seizure of drugs with an estimated street value of in excess of half a million euro as “very significant”, and revealed that the case was very close to a gangland-style operation.

Two firearms have been found at a primary school in Co Kerry.

A man has been arrested in Tralee in Co Kerry after a firearm was found in a house in the town.

The Garda Ombudsman has appealed for information from the public after a man was found unconscious in a cell in a Garda station today.

Gardaí in Co Kerry are questioning a man in connection with a gun attack in Tralee.

A man has been arrested after shots were fired at a house in Co Kerry.

A 24-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist died after he collided with a 4x4 in Tralee yesterday afternoon.

THE jury in the murder trial taking place at the Central Criminal Court heard a recording of a phone call between the two accused yesterday.

Three men, all from the North, are in custody after gardaí foiled an attempted raid on an ATM in County Kerry.

A MAN in his 20s was arrested early yesterday after a shotgun was found in the boot of his car near Castleisland, Co Kerry.

Shotguns and samurai swords were among deadly weapons seized today by detectives investigating a spiralling feud between Traveller families.

A 32-year-old man who was stabbed in Tralee last night has died from his injuries.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital in Kerry this morning after being stabbed yesterday.

THE Garda ombudsman’s office yesterday confirmed it was investigating an incident in which two men sustained injuries during a Garda operation in Co Kerry.

A CASE in which a jury convicted a 45-year-old Kerryman of seriously assaulting his brother could be referred back to the DPP, it was learnt yesterday.

A MAN was killed after his plane crashed in North Kerry yesterday shortly after completing an exhibition flight.

GARDAÍ in Tralee were questioning a 41-year-old local man last evening in connection with a brutal assault in the town last March.