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.

COME summer time, there’s never a shortage of things to do around Ireland. Sometimes the best of festivals tended to go unnoticed but these days it’s easy to pick them on www.discoverireland.ie

TOPFLIGHT’S choice of holidays continues to expand.

MIDLETON-based Discover Travel has launched its largest brochure for south-east Asia, updated to include Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore and Hong Kong.