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The flags are flying in Kerry ahead of the decider

Kerry fans confident of claiming Sam Maguire on Sunday

Kerry take on Dublin in the All-Ireland senior football championship final on Sunday, hoping to win title number 39 to extend the county's lead over all other counties.

Ireland • 27 Jul 23

The settlement was reached in the High Court

Family urges inquiry into South Kerry CAMHS failings

The family of a 15-year-old boy, who was among the patients impacted by failings in the South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, has called for a full public inquiry into the matter.

Courts • 25 Jul 23

A plaque to William Spotswood Green was commissioned by a fellow marine scientist and fisheries expert Kevin Flannery

Plaque to be unveiled in Co Kerry to marine scientist

A marine scientist and Church of Ireland priest who established Irish marine research is to be remembered in Co Kerry.

Munster • 20 Jul 23

The item was found at Lough Currane near Waterville (File image)

Gardaí to trace owner of prosthetic hip found in lake

Gardaí in Co Kerry are trying to trace the owner of a prosthetic hip joint found in the bottom of a famous fishing lake and are hoping a serial number will reveal the identity.

Munster • 19 Jul 23

The Puck Fair goat pictured in his cage last year

Puck Fair goat to spend less time on elevated stand

The hours spent by the wild mountain goat on a high stand overlooking Killorglin at the annual Puck Fair are to be severely curtailed next month.

Munster • 17 Jul 23

An ongoing protest has also been taking place at Cork City Library where protestors have been entering the building, approaching staff and filming them (Stock image)

Call for stronger laws after Kerry library protests

A Kerry TD has called for stronger laws to protect people in "special public spaces such as libraries' following an incident which saw protesters storm a children's storytelling event in a public library in Tralee during the Kingdom Pride Festival.

Munster • 15 Jul 23

A view of the citizenship ceremony held in Killarney today

Nearly 4,000 people to receive Irish citizenship

A total of 3,914 people will be conferred with Irish citizenship at four ceremonies being held today and tomorrow in Co Kerry.

Munster • 19 Jun 23

A technical examination of the scene was carried out (stock image)

Man dies, three injured in Kerry road crash

A man has died and three other people were injured in a road collision in Co Kerry yesterday afternoon.

Ireland • 18 Jun 23

Gardaí thanked the public for their assistance and said no further action is needed

93-year-old missing from Co Kerry found safe and well

A 93-year-old man missing from Co Kerry has been located safe and well.

Munster • 02 Jun 23

The coroner returned verdicts of unlawful killing in the cases of Eileen O'Sullivan and her son Jamie

Lixnaw inquest hears 'entire family wiped out'

The family of a woman who died along with her son when they were shot by her partner in a double murder-suicide in Co Kerry have said they look forward to tighter gun control laws, and to the Government improving community-based mental health supports after such incidents occur.

Munster • 31 May 23

St Finan's former psychiatric hospital in Killarney, Co Kerry (Google Streetview)

Call to remove protected status of St Finan's rejected

Council management in Kerry have rejected a move to remove the protected status from St Finan's former psychiatric hospital in Killarney to facilitate housing.

Kerry • 15 May 23

David and Paudie Clifford have both been selected to play for Kerry in tomorrow's Munster senior football final against Clare at the TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick (file image)

Mother of Kerry footballers David, Paudie Clifford dies

The death has taken place of Ellen Clifford, mother of Kerry footballers David and Paudie.

Ireland • 06 May 23

An Irish Coast Guard helicopter at Nuns' Beach in Ballybunion, Co Kerry

Man rescued after falling more than 20m from cliff

A man in his 30s is recovering in hospital after losing his footing and falling more than 20 metres onto a beach from a cliff walk in Ballybunion, Co Kerry, earlier today.

Kerry • 28 Apr 23

Thomas Dooley was stabbed while attending a funeral at Rathass Cemetery in Tralee on 5 October 2022

Teenager charged with murder of Thomas Dooley in Tralee

A teenager has been charged with the murder of 43-year-old Thomas Dooley at a cemetery in Tralee, Co Kerry, last October.

Regional • 26 Apr 23

'The Banner of the Patriots' being carried aloft by troops of the new National Army/Free state Army in 1922 (file image)

Calls to remember Free State soldiers from Kerry

Many of the Free State soldiers who died in the Civil War were from Kerry, but they are scarcely recognised or commemorated according to new research by a historian who is calling for greater recognition.

Regional • 23 Apr 23

March was unusually wet and dull with above average rainfall and temperatures, according to Met Éireann (file image)

Valentia the wettest place in Ireland last month

The weather in March was unusually wet and dull with above average rainfall and above average temperature, in almost all parts of the country, according to Met Éireann.

Weather • 04 Apr 23

Visits are prohibited before the reopening date, when the early medieval monastic site is unmanned.

Sceilg Mhichíl to reopen to visitors next month

The UNESCO World Heritage site of Sceilg Mhichíl in Co Kerry will reopen for the 2023 season on 13 May, when guides will be back on the island, it has been announced.

Munster • 04 Apr 23

Forensic science key to solving Kerry Babies case

For the past five years, a team of detectives drawn from the Kerry garda division and from the Serious Crime Review Team based in Dublin have been conducting a cold case review of the discovery, on 14 April 1984, of the body of a five-day old baby boy on a south Kerry beach.

Munster • 24 Mar 23

Gardaí held a press conference on the case in January 2018

Kerry cold case review follows 225 lines of inquiry

On 14 April 1984, the body of a five-day-old baby boy was found on the beach at White Strand near Cahersiveen, Co Kerry.

Munster • 24 Mar 23

The body of an infant was discovered at White Strand in Cahersiveen in Co Kerry in 1984

Two held on suspicion of murder in Kerry Babies case

Two people have been arrested in connection with the discovery of the body of an infant at White Strand in Cahersiveen in Co Kerry in 1984, which became known as the Kerry Babies case.

Munster • 23 Mar 23

The research will focus on the impact of climate change on heritage sites

Sceilg Mhichíl chosen as site for climate change study

The UNESCO site of Sceilg Mhichíl in Co Kerry has been selected as one of only ten sites globally to be part of a research project on climate change and its worsening effects on heritage.

Munster • 14 Mar 23

South-west Kerry shamrock farmer Cian Sugrue

Shamrock farmers shape up for busiest week of the year

Shamrock exported to the US and elsewhere is planted from seed by local company Irish Plants International near Baile an Sceilg in Co Kerry - growing prolifically on local rainwater, nutrients and sunshine.

Ireland • 13 Mar 23

Michael and Phillippa Christie at the home near Killorglin in Co Kerry

'How can we work when homeless' - couple face eviction

Munster • 10 Mar 23

Six people were rescued overnight after climbing in Co Kerry (Courtesy: Kerry Mountain Rescue)

Six safely rescued from Kerry mountain

Six people were rescued from the Eastern Reeks in Co Kerry overnight in a nine hour operation undertaken by the Kerry Mountain Rescue Team in challenging conditions.

Regional • 09 Mar 23

A medic treats a wounded colleague in Kerry (Image: National Library of Ireland)

What happened during Kerry's 'Terror Month'?

This weekend marks the centenary of some of the worst atrocities committed during the Civil War. Donal Byrne has been looking at what happened at Ballyseedy, and in other parts of Kerry, during what became known as the "Terror Month".

Decade of Commemorations • 03 Mar 23