‘Control gorse burning or wildfires will kill someone’

As the number of gorse wildfires in Kerry has almost trebled so far this year, a warning has been issued that human life will be lost if the situation is not controlled.

In the first six months, the county fire service was called to 209 gorse fires, compared to 75 for the same period last year.

Thousands of acres in Killarney National Park were damaged, as well as large stretches in other mountainous areas.