A pair of old friends from Barcelona came to stay with us for a week in August, as they do every summer, welcoming Ireland’s breezy climate as a respite from the 40C heat endured throughout much of Spain.

Flight EI-888 departed Cork at 6.10pm and was bound for Malaga on the Costa Del Sol in Spain.

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

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Catch up on today's news.

A 49-year-old British man has been arrested in Malaga in connection with the incident.

The Irish recruitment scene is enjoying an upsurge in activity in recent times, as can been seen with this selection of new appointments and promotions.

Oliver and John Reel lost over €200k on a development in the Costa Del Sol. It’s been a long journey but they’re helping others recoup their losses, writes Dan Buckley.

Spanish police say they have “dismantled” a major Irish drug-trafficking gang after a joint operation with gardaí resulted in the seizure of 170kg of cannabis herb and the arrest of four Irish men.

Dan Buckley Two Irish brothers are helping Irish and British investors in Spain get back sums to up €500,000, writes Dan Buckley.

Irish investors who lost millions in the Spanish property market crash are finally beginning to get their money back, after more than a decade of setbacks and legal wrangling.

The period between Christmas and New Year is fast becoming peak season Ciara McDonnell has the best options abroad for a Twixmas break – so you can start planning for next year.

Santa in the sun? Ciara McDonnell checks out the best deals. 

Update - 10.35am: Around 860,000 customers are affected by Monarch Airlines going into administration, the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said.

Lawyers win 13 cases this year as even more British and Irish property buyers seek to reclaim lost funds

A Dublin man will bring an appeal against the severity of his seven-year sentence for killing his partner's son in October.

Playing golf on the lower slopes of Europe’s most active volcano; looking for a lost ball amidst the black sand and rocks of hardened lava, and the sound of a helicopter ferrying tourists for overhead views of the highest crater.

TV3's new crime documentary series 'Assasins: Ireland's contract killers' starts tonight at 9pm.

Carolyn Moore explores the wonderful treasures this old Spanish city has to offer.

Leicester City’s fans showed that English hooliganism hasn’t gone away. Which is worrying what with the World Cup in Russia coming up next year, writes The Secret Footballer.

Travelfox is noted for its over-55 offers and this October has a 10-day trip to Costa Del Almeria, to the four-star Best Sabinal Hotel in Roquetas de Mar on a half-board basis with free wine and water, for €499. 

Three golfers who were injured when the taxi they shared somersaulted into a ravine while they were holidaying in Spain, are to share more than €50,000 damages for personal injuries.

Footage has emerged of what is believed to be a suspect in the killing of Trevor O’Neill, the innocent man shot in Majorca last summer.

A Dublin man has appeared in court in Spain charged in connection with the murder of Gary Hutch.

A man arrested in Spain for the gangland murder that ignited the bloody Hutch- Kinahan feud is expected to appear in court there today.

You wouldn’t normally associate Clare’s Cratloe Woods with the sun-soaked Costa del Sol but as David Moriarty watched the Tipperary footballers go through their paces, he was filled with a renewed sense of hope.

An Irish citizen is in serious condition in hospital after falling from a balcony in Spain.

Dean Fitzpatrick’s father has described how his “world came crashing down” after hearing that his son had been “brutally killed” by David Mahon.

The ripples from this latest gun killing have shivered across society. Once more, there is a sense of panic. Where will it all end? Do these thugs have free rein to murder at will, asks Michael Clifford

A man who refused to pay a fine for taking his six-year-old daughter out of school for a family trip to Florida has won a ruling in his favour at the British High Court today.

Tragedy is nothing new in the Fitzpatrick family, even as they absorb the news of the verdict handed down in the David Mahon case over the death of teenager Dean Fitzpatrick.

Fears are growing among local residents after a suspected dissident republican was murdered in his pub in the first of two gun killings in Dublin within hours of each other last night.

Gardaí are investigating two murders in Dublin in the latest spate of violence in the city.

Garda murder squad detectives have released a photo of an innocent man shot dead in a botched gangland attack as they renewed calls for witnesses.

Gardaí have said they have now identified a man shot in Dublin's inner city this afternoon.

Tributes have been paid to a 21-year-old Corkman who drowned in a swimming pool, hours after jetting out to Spain on his first foreign holiday.

Latest: It is understood that the man who died today's accident in Spain is from the mid-Cork area.