Ahead of this weekend’s All-Ireland hurling semi-finals, two villages have been granted a special dispensation to change mass times to avoid a clash with the match.

The bloodstock business co-owned by well-known businessman, Denis Brosnan posted a pre-tax loss of just over €2m as a result of exceptional costs.

From pig farming to Reiki master seems like a bit of a stretch, but that’s the direction Caroline Rigney is taking. For the last 21 years she’s been as happy as a pig in chemical-free manure, producing the best possible food to sustain a lifestyle she and her husband chose to rear their two daughters, Rebecca, 29 and Rachel, 27.

The late English poet laureate Ted Hughes described salmon as “sensitive glands in the vast, dishevelled body of nature, as individual meteorological stations responding to rain, storm, and wind”.

The two drivers who died in the fatal road smash which claimed three lives in west Limerick on Thursday evening were both retired nurses, it has emerged.

The two-car collision occurred on the Kerry side of Loughill, in West Limerick.

The agri-tourism potential of west Limerick and north Kerry is huge, according to Limerick Chamber, which has outlined the opportunities at a seminar in Newcastle West.

The HSE has confirmed seven patients whose scans were missed or misread and whose cancer diagnoses were delayed at University Hospital Kerry have now died.

A charity has deployed its latest rapid response medical jeep to help save lives in North Kerry and West Limerick.

The home of a designer offers character and comfort on beautiful West Limerick gardens, says Tommy Barker.

Necessity makes bedfellows of the fiercest of rivals, especially as GAA clubs fight against rural depopulation.

Emergency Department nurses and their families who took part in a lunchtime protest outside University Hospital Kerry in Tralee were joined by hospital staff and the public.

Two súgán chairs, a súgán egg basket, and other straw-made items are on their way to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall after a visit to Muckross traditional farms in Killarney last week.

For the Cronin brothers, Keith and Daniel, Sunday’s Rathkeale House Hotel Circuit of Munster Rally in west Limerick has different agendas.

The annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle is gearing up for a phenomenal 35th year.

Latest: Kerry Mountain Rescue and the Valentia Coastguard have stood down their search for a missing hillwalker.

In the theatre of war of the turbulent years from 1919 to 1921, Cork was the main act, writes John Borgonovo

BBQ for a great cause: Sage Restaurant in Midleton will host a Summer BBQ on Monday (July 24) as a fundraiser for the Time for Tilara fund. 

The electrochemist and lecturer is one of only three Irish-based researchers overall to be awarded an ERC starting grant in 2017.

A University of Limerick (UL) researcher has been given €1.5m for pioneering work on generating clean energy through photosynthesis — the only Irish scientist granted by the European Research Council (ERC) in the physical science field this year.

Accumulated profits at the bloodstock firm co-owned by former Kerry Group supremo Denis Brosnan last year climbed to €4.2m.

Executive staff of Cork County Council, backed by elected members, have warned the Government any attempt to re-route a proposed motorway link between Cork and Limerick through Tipperary would be a disaster for the economies of North Cork, Kerry, and West Limerick.

Tom Mazzone of the Isle of Man team will wear the first yellow jersey of this year’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan after claiming a brilliant opening stage win last night in Killorglin.

The Kerry Group Rás Mumhan rolls out of Killorglin at 3pm today and another cracking race is expected with upwards of 190 riders set to do battle over the coming four days.

Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe tells how the proposed Foynes-Limerick road scheme may, after years of frustration, offer relief of a bypass for the town Adare.

A 58-year-old Co Limerick man, charged in connection with the seizure of an estimated €160,000 worth of cannabis plants, told gardaí after his arrest: “I wasn’t growing them; they’re not my property”, a court heard.

A family from Templeglantine, West Limerick has won a national competition by leading energy provider Energia to find Ireland’s Most Christmassy Home.

Beyond party town, it’s the place to begin exploring the great outdoors

One in five people in Kerry are economically dependent on tourism, according to the most in-depth examination of the €420m-a-year industry in the county, carried out on behalf of the umbrella body, Destination Kerry Tourism Forum. The research also found that the number of overseas visitors to the county exceeded one million for the first time in 2015,

Chambers of Commerce in Cork and Limerick have firmly quashed rumours they are in favour of routing a motorway between the two cities via Mitchelstown.

Gardaí will have to go to court today if they wish to extend the period of detention of a Lithuanian man arrested in the planned operation on Wednesday morning in which another Lithuanian man was shot and wounded.

Two separate investigations have been launched after a shot was discharged during an undercover Garda operation targeting Eastern European gangs.

A mother who miraculously survived after being burned in a barbecue accident has raised over €200,000 for the National Burns Unit, where she received life-saving treatment.

Twenty years after the killing of Det Jerry McCabe, the survivor of the IRA attack Det Ben O’Sullivan says he has learnt to live with it, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

The HSE has warned of a measles outbreak in various parts of the country and which is particularly affecting those who had not received the MMR vaccine.

Julia Holmes moved to Co Limerick in 2012 after making contact with Thomas Ruttle on the internet.

The sad details over what led to the deaths of a serial fraudster grandmother and her beekeeper lover are to be disclosed today at their joint inquest in West Limerick.

Trish Dromey reports on an old landmark building which has been surprisingly and carefully modernised.

The mystery deaths and Thomas Ruttle and Julia Holmes and the bizarre circumstances in which their bodies were found in a house in West Limerick will unfold at a hearing later this month.