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Wed 01 Jan 2007Kerry council to give stress counselling to firefightersSpecialised stress management counselling is to be made available to firefighters in Kerry who are dealing with an increasing number of road traffic accidents involving death and serious injury, according to Kerry County Council's director of services, Oliver Ring.There are a small number of full-time fire officials, but the majority of 140 firefighters in Kerry work on a part-time basis, with 27 of this number working as volunteers.