KERRY County Council paid to have a convicted UK sex offender and his partner stay in a luxury hotel in Killarney for a week for his own safety following a spate of attacks on convicted paedophiles in the region, the Sunday Tribune has learned. The English-born man, in his 60s, whose name was added to the UK sex offenders register following a conviction for child molestation in Liverpool in the 1990s, was accommodated at the hotel along with his disabled wife after a group of over 40 local people in the Scartaglin area outside Killarney marched on the couple's home...