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IDA jobs plan snubs Kerry again
IN spite of surging unemployment figures, the IDA has once again ignored Kerry and omitted the county from it's latest national investment programme.
Kingdom bounce back
WHAT is it about this Kerry team? Every time you think they're in trouble, real trouble, they bounce back... and bounce back in style. How many times over recent seasons (under both Pat O'Shea and Jack O'Connor) have they looked dead and buired – against Cork in the All Ireland semi-final in 2008, against Sligo last year – and yet bounced back?
€35 bet nets win of €280k
RECESSION blues were banished forever for one Moyvane man who beat all the odds in winning over €280,000 through two accumulator bets on an afternoon's racing on Friday.
Frenchman denies child love
A FRENCH man who had been sleeping in a tent in the Beaufort area has denied allegations that he is in love with a local eight-year-old girl.
Causeway return in a blaze of glory
BONFIRES raged across north Kerry on Saturday night as hurling fans from Ballyduff to Ballyheigue and Causeway to Kilmoyley gathered to welcome home the newly crowned All-Ireland Vocational Schools junior champions of Causeway Comprehensive.
'I'm not promoting devil worship'
THE owner of a Tralee goth and punk clothes shop says she's dismayed at rumours that her shop is selling legal drugs and devil worship paraphernalia.
Court hears of €134,000 drugs operation in Tralee
DETAILS of an elaborate Garda sting operation to capture a man suspected of importing €134,000 worth of cannabis into Ireland have been revealed at Tralee Circuit Criminal Court.
Storm over removal of statue
HSE management has moved to calm the storm over its removal of religious artefacts, including a landmark 70-yearold Scared Heart statue, from the grounds of Killarney Community Hospital.
Kingdom's Star shining bright
IT was a gray, rain soaked day, not that Kieran Donaghy cared. He was back playing for Kerry. It may have been Longford, it may well have been a first round qualifier, but it was championship, he had Colm Cooper alongside him and the Kingdom were purring.
LISTOWEL: Credit due to national art competition winners
STAFF at the Credit Union were thrilled this week to learn that two budding young artists they put forward for the organisation's national poster competition were recognised as among the best in the land. Billy Kissane from Dromclough National School was voted the overall winner in Ireland for his age category (8-10 years) when his stunning poster of a farmer at work in the fields on his tractor wowed the national judges.
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AT 4.53pm local time on January 12, Milltown man Conor Murphy was deep in a meeting...
