Kerry people have been urged not to be alarmed if an increased amount of drones are spotted in the skies in the coming months. As shooting starts on the next Star Wars movie it is understood that so paranoid are the film-makers about it, and keeping the shoot secret, they may do what they are doing in Croatia, where they have hired a specialist team to fly armed drones which will be used to shoot down any camera drones that are spotted trying to spy on the film’s extensive sets. This week, The Kerryman speculates: “Could we expect to see drone dogfights in the sky above Ceann Sibéal.”
This was just one of a clutch of great stories from Ireland's local newspapers which Ronan Casey and Anton Savage go through every week for your listening pleasure. Listen here:
The lads also had an inside look at the house that Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara lived in when she won her €115 million jackpot. It's up for rent in Limerick at the moment.
There was an update on Bruce Springsteen from the Leinster Leader. Not only has he been invited to Rathangan to plant a tree, he has also been invited to visit the towns six pubs and enjoy some ham sangers in the local Community Centre.
There is the cost of doing a wee in a prison cell from the Leinster Leader, the big-hearted gesture by singer Damien Dempsey as reported in the Connacht Tribune, the Vietnamese roads of Kerry and from the Southern Star's Siobhan Cronin, the family from West Cork who could not get a house to fit 8 kids so they had to move to, er Monaghan. And the one thing they miss about West Cork is this:
