The appeal of vacations linked to sites connected to death, destruction and atrocities is a fast growing global sector known as 'dark tourism'.

Former Australia spinner Shane Warne has hit out at the "disgraceful" treatment of Steve Smith by the media, stressing that the sacked captain "isn't Pablo Escobar".

Security forces in Colombia have killed one of its most-wanted drug fugitives, the alleged number two leader of a ruthless criminal network that arose from disbanded right-wing paramilitary groups to become the nation's largest drug-trafficking organisation.

Before he starts work in Limerick on a new series from George RR Martin, director Doug Liman is bringing the tale of super smuggler Barry Seal to the big screen, writes Esther McCarthy.

The former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega died on Monday.

The fight to control narcotics in Central America has cost more than 40,000 lives. Des Breen reads two books which expose the vicious reality behind the war on drugs.

This Texas photographer created the perfect Halloween costume for her husband and daughter.

A strange and varied mix in cinemas this week, including a new Irish comdy classic, a returning horror franchise and comedy show back after long breaks and a new film from the guy behind What We Do in the Shadows.

Netflix has renewed Narcos for two more seasons.

Narcos is back, with the entire second season ready to watch on Netflix around the world now.

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The real story of Pablo Escobar is almost impossible to believe, which made it great fodder for the first season of Narcos on Netflix. Now the tale is set to continue in season 2.

Narcos is Pablo Escobar series on Netflix which you might have missed last year. But don't worry, there's more to come and plenty of time to catch up.

After playing Nidge and Padraic Pearse, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor is happy to just be himslef for a chat to Clodagh Finn

Eamon Gilmore believes Europe can offer tangible support to Colombia as it embarks on its peace process, writes Ann Cahill Europe Correspondent

The scale of the illegal drugs business, the violence, the complicity of bankers in laundering money and the absolute power of the drug barons is beyond comprehension. Cormac O’Keeffe on an escalating world crisis.

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The star of the new Netflix drama on Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel tells Ed Power

While we're used to seeing the Bryan Cranston donning the 'tache and specs, Vaughan-Lawlor is a long way from his new embroidered Nikies.

Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo has caused anger by posting a picture of the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar on his Instagram page.

AWEEK on from meeting Conor Hartnett, a volunteer aid worker in Brazil’s second largest city, Rio de Janeiro, and it seems like it was just another amusing conversation with a witty Irishman.

Jake Gyllenhaal has joined the cast of 'Let it Snow'.

A man who confessed to hundreds of murders as head of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s army of assassins, has been freed from a maximum security prison under heavy police guard.

World Cup good, bad and ugly

Impac winner Juan Gabriel Vasquez on how the slaying of soccer star Andres Escobar marked a tipping point, writes Alan O’Riordan

The Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez has won the 2014 Impac Dublin Award for his novel The Sound of Things Falling.

Colombian football seemed to die with Andrés Escobar and drug dealer Pablo Escobar, says Ewan MacKenna.

Cocaine cake a ‘joke in bad taste’

Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t joking when he growled: “I’ll be back.”

MEXICAN drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman is “the world’s most powerful drug trafficker”, according to the US Treasury Department.

A convicted Colombian drug baron with links to two major cartels was shot dead in a Madrid hospital.

THE lawyer defending one of the men accused in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs case said it was absurd to think that a bricklayer and family man from England could be involved in a drug crime on the scale that one would associate with the notorious Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.

The lawyer defending one of the men in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs case said today it was absurd to think that a brick-layer and family man from England could be involved in a drug crime on the scale that one would associate with the notorious Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.

John Breslin on a court case that throws a spotlight on the murky world of international espionage and shady deals struck in Afghanistan.

In what the US calls “the final, fatal blow” to the world’s biggest cocaine supplier, two Colombian brothers who helped found the infamous Cali cartel have pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, agreed to forfeit billions in assets, and received what could amount to a life sentence.

The man who directed hit teams against the Colombian cocaine cartel’s Pablo Escobar fingered a disgraced politician yesterday as being behind the 1989 assassination of leading presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.

Police have captured a top Colombian drug lord who is said to responsible for “huge volumes” of drugs entering the United States.

BUSINESSMAN Denis O’Brien was evasive and ambivalent during negotiations that secured his consortium the licence to run the State’s second mobile telephone network, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

Susanna A Nesmith, Bogota, Colombia

Gunmen on motorcycles have killed the new chief of secret police as he drove his car in Medellin, Colombia.