Speaking on RTÉ this week, two of the sons of anti-Treaty IRA members at the centre of atrocities in Kerry this month one hundred years ago displayed little interest in the idea of official apologies ...

Fianna Fáil leader and Tánaiste Micheál Martin laying a wreath at the Ballyseedy monument last March. Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald speaks to the crowd in Kerry during the centenary ...

The involvement of relations on either side of the Ballyseedy atrocity 100 years ago next month has resonated down the decades for John O’Shea’s family, writes Mick Clifford John O’Shea's relatives ...

The “complex” High Court bail application of a second Kerry man charged over the country’s largest-ever crystal meth seizure has been adjourned for two weeks. James Leen (41), of Pilgrim Hill, ...

The massacre at the townland outside Tralee was the outrage that came to define, for many, the brutality of the civil war The Ballyseedy monument. A spokesperson for Sinn Féin told the Irish Examiner ...

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THE survivor of one of the most infamous events in the Civil War urged his children ever after to forgive those who carried out the atrocity. Stephen Fuller was the sole survivor of the heinous ...

Ballyseedy Restaurant Ltd in Kerry, whose chief executive, Nathan McDonnell, pleaded guilty in relation to Ireland’s largest-ever seizure of crystal meth earlier this year, has been wound up by the ...

Ballyseedy, 8 March 1923 - In Kerry, Eight anti-treaty prisoners were killed after being blown up by mines attached to a barricade they had been ordered to clear. A statement issued by National Army ...