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An Irishwoman has had her baby son snatched by a car thief in a Spanish town.

WHERE did that last school term go?

Fed up with forced family frolics and catty couples on Christmas Day? Pack your bags, says Pól Ó Conghaile Christmas is the ideal time for solo travellers to get away

ONCE upon a time, Spain’s Costa del Sol was a simple string of fishing villages.

REMEMBER Paul the Octopus? Well he has a successor. Iker the Octopus predicted a draw in the first El Clasico, a win for Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey and the Madridistas for tonight’s Champions League semi-finals at the Bernabeu.

POLICE have arrested a second Irishman being hunted over the shooting of a British expat at his home on the Costa del Sol.

POLICE are examining a revolver recovered from an Irish man they arrested in a Costa del Sol drugs den.

AN innocent Dubliner shot during a bar-room dispute in Spain last month was described as “gentle giant” and “a big softie” at his funeral Mass yesterday.

The Chief Celebrant at the funeral of John O'Neill, the Irishman shot dead in Spain recently, said today that he was an innocent victim of an incident in which he had no part.

The body of an Irishman murdered in Spain last week has arrived back in the country.

The remains of an Irish man shot dead on the Costa del Sol last week are expected to be returned home today.

Investigations are continuing on the Costa del Sol in Spain into the shooting dead of an Irish man.

THE family of Irishman John O’Neill fear his body will not be returned to Ireland for weeks because it is part of an ongoing Spanish police investigation.

A Spanish judge has issued an international arrest warrant for a British man following the fatal shooting of a Dublin man on the Costa del Sol.

THE innocent Irish father-of-two who was brutally gunned down after a Spanish pub row escalated out of control only joined the argument as a peacemaker.

Police investigating the shooting of an Irish tourist on the Costa del Sol are searching for a British man, who is believed to be behind the killing.

“IT could have happened to anyone.”

A MANHUNT is under way in southern Spain after an Irish father-of-two was shot dead in front of his partner while celebrating a friend’s wedding.

An Irishman has been shot dead on the Costa Del Sol in Spain.

An Irish man has been shot dead in Spain.

A SUSPECTED paedophile on the run from police was arrested in a bar in Spain after British people recognised him from a TV appeal.

Detectives in Spain are probing possible links between the gangland style shooting of a Dublin man in Costa del Sol and criminal connections in Ireland.

An Irish man has been shot dead in a gangland-style attack in the resort of Benalmadena, near Torremolinos in Spain at approximately 11.30pm last night.

THOSE looking for an alternative luxury winter sun holiday might be tempted by new deals to the Dominican Republic.

Two small bombs blamed on Basque separatist group ETA exploded at tourist resorts in southern Spain today, authorities said. No injuries were reported, but more than 10,000 people were evacuated from a harbour area.

A small bomb has exploded on a tourist beach in the Spanish resort of Guadalmar on the southern Costa del Sol following a warning call, causing no injuries and little damage.

At least seven people have been killed in a bus crash near the Spanish resort town of Benalmadena, police said tonight.

IF the idea of living your golden years in the Costa del Sol appeals to you, the Adorea development may be the answer to your dreams.

WHEN the first flakes scudded past the window at lunch time, I thought they were almond blossom petals drifting on the wind.