A 32-year-old man has appeared in court charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a cyclist on the N22 main Killarney to Tralee road on a Sunday morning last November.

An elderly woman escaped serious injury after her car effectively collided with Fitzpatrick’s Shop in Glounthane, outside Cork City.

A woman in her 30's is in a serious condition in hospital following a multi vehicle collision involving a Garda van in Kerry tonight.

A warning has been given of the risk of further deaths and serious crashes at a dangerous junction, on the main N22 Cork to Tralee road, unless safety is improved.

Sections of the main Cork to Tralee road are in dire need of maintenance, especially between Killarney and Ballyvourney, it has been claimed.

The green light has been given for the country’s first fully adapted sports centre which will cater for people with, and without, physical and intellectual disabilities at the same time.

Kerry is unlikely to benefit from an upsurge in the tourism industry until major road schemes have been undertaken.

Fifteen people, including 11 children, were injured yesterday evening following a head-on crash between a minibus and a car near Farranfore in Co Kerry.

15 people have been injured following a crash in Co Kerry.

A woman aged in her 40s has died in a road accident in Co Kerry this morning.

A coroner has called for warning signs to be erected at a notorious bend on the main road between Killarney and Tralee where three people died in two separate accidents in “exactly the same place.”

Despite strong warnings that Kerry’s road network will deteriorate further, funding for the county council’s 2014 roadworks programme has been slashed by 34%.

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.

Three articulated trucks were driven three-abreast along the main Limerick to Tralee road, blocking the oncoming lane, so it could be recorded and put on YouTube for charity, Tralee District Court was told.

A wheelchair user who was sentenced to four years in January for distributing cannabis across Limerick and Kerry has been jailed again for dealing cannabis.

The last time I reported on Kerry in Newbridge, they grabbed the national league point they probably deserved yesterday.

The risk of tragedies at a main road junction leading to a sports stadium in Killarney, Co Kerry, has been highlighted by a town councillor.

Progress has been welcomed in the planning of a long-awaited sewerage scheme, listed as a priority in the protection of one of the main picture-postcard Killarney lakes.

Doctors at the Killarney Primary Care Centre yesterday said normal business has not been affected by a High Court decision to appoint an examiner to the Prime Healthcare Group that had been involved in setting up the centre.

PEOPLE “are being drowned every day” in Killarney, a local councillor has claimed.

A road in Tralee, Co Kerry, has been closed for at least the next hour following a crash.

FIRST we heard the country music tones of Mike Denver over the loudspeakers.

THE €34 million Castleisland bypass will be officially opened on Friday next by Defence Minister Tony Killeen.

A FARM of 48 acres at Kilcow, Castleisland, Co Kerry, is offered for sale in three lots through auctioneer Brendan Mannix.

Householders around the country tonight faced a second evening without fresh running water as reservoirs were ordered to ration supplies.

Cork has been hit by flooding as heavy rain sweeps across the county.

Thousands of homes were facing water shortages again today as local authorities continued to ration supplies in the wake of the big freeze.

Drivers in many parts of the country are facing a difficult commute after another overnight freeze.

THE last time Cork met Kerry in an All-Ireland football final (2007) a charitable organisation called build4life (www.build4life.net) was formed.

Two young friends were killed when their car crashed in to a wall and burst in to flames in the second double tragedy to hit a rural town.

Two young men have died following an overnight road crash in Co Kerry.

Gardaí have released the names of a mother and daughter killed in Co Donegal.

A woman has been seriously injured in a four-car road accident in Co Kerry.

A KERRY County Council decision to turn down a planning application for a shopping development in Castleisland could cost the town 90 jobs, it was claimed yesterday.

A GROWING number of high-rise buildings are taking from the beauty of Killarney and blocking off views traditionally enjoyed by local people and visitors, it has been claimed.

LANDOWNERS on the northern and western outskirts of Killarney are set for a huge financial windfall, with large amounts of property due to be zoned for housing.

THE condition of some Kerry tourist routes is so poor that some local people are no longer changing their cars.

THE Department of the Environment has, for almost three years, failed to respond to a proposal to extend the public sewer in Killarney to the heavily populated environs of the town.

I WONDER how long John Kenneally was waiting for Munster to lose at Thomond Park so he could submit his anti-Limerick tirade (‘Munster rugby is at home in Cork — not Limerick’ (Irish Examiner letters, January 24).

THE journey time between Cork and Tralee continues to decrease, with improvements to the N22 road.

CHANGES in the way the ambulance service deals with emergency situations in Kerry should ensure that two serious incidents that occurred in the county recently will not be repeated.

A E13.2m upgrade to the N21 will help jobs and tourism and improve road safety, it was claimed today.