A Cork businessman has been given a five-year jail sentence in Spain after authorities there had seized a yacht carrying €6m of cannabis.

A Briton has been arrested in Spain for allegedly killing a German man he caught filming his young daughter with an iPad.

Michael Matthews pipped Dan Martin in a sprint finish to win the third stage of the Vuelta a Espana yesterday and claim the leader’s jersey.

A long way away from the rest of the world.

This week marks the 40th anniversary of Johan Cruyff’s debut at Barcelona, last week Real Madrid celebrated Francisco Gento’s 80th birthday.

Spanish customs officials have found £3.6m worth of drugs hidden between layers of frozen fish.

Kinsale sailor John Twomey received a standing ovation on Saturday night at the annual Irish Sailing Association awards ceremony in Dun Laoghaire.

Liverpool’s Suso has been fined £10,000 by the Football Association for calling team-mate Jose Enrique “gay” on Twitter.

Forget about Hawaii or Florida, the buzzword among American retirees is Ireland, either Youghal, Co Cork, or Co Clare — either of which when it comes to affordable homes is hotter than anywhere Stateside.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers admits he expects his side to “fly” once they have overcome the hurdle of securing their first home win of the season.

Liverpool midfielder Suso has signed a new long-term contract, the Premier League club confirmed today.

The Irish couple arrested in Spain after a €3m cannabis seizure aboard a yacht remain in custody as a seventh suspect was arrested at the weekend.

Cork sailor Olivia Van Walleghem tells Jonathan deBurca Butler about the buzz of taking part in the Tall Ships Race in Dublin

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy defended his government’s harsh austerity measures aimed at correcting the country’s grim economic forecast, a day after tens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets to protest his handling of the country’s worst crisis in decades.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy today defended his government’s harsh austerity measures aimed at correcting Spain’s grim economic forecast, one day after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in protest against his handling of the country’s worst crisis in decades.

DUBLIN-BORN designer Zoë Jordan’s new collection is inspired by Amelia Earhart, who said: “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers”.

TODAY, when we woke and opened the curtains, the skies over the Straits of Gibraltar were again peerless blue. The sea, azure and sparkling below them, broke on the sand in a white, crinoline frill.

AT this time of year, the vast white beaches along the Atlantic coast of southern Spain, the Costa de la Luz, are deserted, and the holiday apartments that front them, empty.

Police have arrested three Dutch citizens and seized at least 20 tonnes of cannabis from a boat off the southern coast, Spanish customs said today.

Two cruise liner passengers were killed by a shower of glass shards when giant freak waves smashed windows on their luxury ship.

Filming on Tom Cruise’s new movie was halted by rampaging bulls.

IT’S a sign of the times that Irish tour operators are having to trim down operations to stay in business.

A SPANISH woman believed to have become the world’s oldest new mother when she gave birth at 66 has died at 69, leaving behind twin toddlers.

Wexford's Dave Quigley picked up his second win in a row at the Spanish Sunshine Tour near Cadiz today while Cian O'Connor notched up his first victory of the show.

Senior Irish MEPs tonight said they were confident top European officials would sign-off on a multi-million euro handout to support laid-off Dell employees.

Spain’s Alvaro Quiros won the Oceanico Portuguese Masters at the Victoria Club in Vilamoura after holding off a determined challenge from Europe’s form player, Robert Karlsson.

TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Peter O’Keeffe from Douglas has been a professional for less than six months but through hard work and perseverance lines up alongside Europe’s elite at Adare this week.

Irish champion Shane Lowry is just one stroke off the lead entering Friday's third round of the Sotogrande Cup in Spain.

WHY do you have a category of people in Ireland called “working class” when so few of them work?

Spanish police said tonight they had arrested an Italian man and Portuguese woman who allegedly tried to extort money from the parents of Madeleine McCann, offering them information about their missing four-year-old daughter.

Spanish police arrested an Italian man and a Portuguese woman today with possible links to the case of Madeleine McCann, the four-year-old British girl who vanished nearly two months ago during a holiday in Portugal.

Five-time World Champion Valentino Rossi has claimed the Spanish Moto GP.

Spanish rookie Alvaro Quiros came from behind to win the Alfred Dunhill Championship by one stroke at Leopard Creek on Sunday.

An international society conman jailed in Ireland after going on a spending spree with a stolen credit card and wanted in three countries is to face an extradition hearing within weeks, the High Court heard today.

TORINO will battle it out with Mantova in the Serie B play-off final for the last remaining promotion place to the top flight.

Fernando Torres scored twice to fire Atletico Madrid to a 3-1 victory at the Nou Camp and deny Barcelona the chance to equal one of Spanish football’s longest-standing records.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON is hopeful that a recent run of good form will culminate in a serious challenge for this week’s inaugural HSBC Championship at the Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai, China.

IRELAND will have five players competing in this week’s European Tour School at San Roque in the south of Spain.

EAMONN BRADY, a former West of Ireland champion and a nephew of the celebrated Arsenal and Ireland footballer Liam Brady, represents Ireland’s best chance of reaching the European Tour School at San Roque next week as the field goes into the final round of the second pre-qualifier at Costa Ballena near Cadiz today.

FORMER Walker Cup player Noel Fox, fellow Dubliner Eamonn Brady and David Mortimer, the Galway-born Newlands club professional, battled back into contention for places in the European Tour School at San Roque next week with excellent rounds in yesterday’s second day of pre-qualifying at the Costa Ballena course near Cadiz in the south of Spain.

THE second stage of the European Tour’s qualifying school takes place this week in Spain with 252 players competing. Matches will be played at three venues for a place at next week’s six round final stage, where the top 30 players (plus ties) will win a place on the 2006 European Tour.

IRELAND will have a minimum of ten players on next season’s European Tour.

TWO OF European football’s most famous defenders made their presence felt at the other end of the pitch with two goals apiece in Spain and Italy.

Real Madrid have warned they will not be forced into selling Michael Owen on the cheap.