Nine Kerry towns set to lose GP services

Nine Kerry towns and villages will soon be without a GP, and towns which have managed to restore doctor services are doing so under sharing arrangements.

A Killarney medical doctor has also warned of the county’s “encroaching desertification”, adding that more schools, too, will close in rural areas.

One busy village, Rathmore on the Cork-Kerry border, has been without a GP since a doctor retired over a year ago.