As a holiday destination, Malta is just off the beaten track – and it’s a must-see, writes Grainne McGuinness.

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Darren Norris visited the Mediterranean nation with the preconceived idea that it was only for the middle-aged and upwards — and only to be explored in the summer. He was wrong on both counts, he admits.

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FLIGHTS from Dublin to Malta are on special offer right now, with prices starting from just less than €90 with Ryanair.

AN ELDERLY priest yesterday acknowledged he was naked in saunas with former US congressman Mark Foley decades ago when the latter was a boy in Florida, but denied the two had sex.

THE Irish skiing business continues to grow and Topflight has moved to take advantage of a huge surge in interest.

IT'S been almost two years since Siamese twins Jodie and Mary Attard were born in August 2000.

Pope John Paul II was today heading for Malta - a bastion of his own church - to close a journey that challenged the stamina of the frail pontiff amid momentous gestures for religious reconciliation with others.

Siamese twin Jodie could be discharged from hospital in as little as two weeks' time.

Conjoined twin Mary - who died during an operation to save her sister Jodie in Manchester - has been buried on the Maltese island of Gozo.

The funeral of conjoined twin Mary who died during an operation to separate her from her sister Jodie is taking place near the family's home on a Maltese island.

Hospital managers say surviving Siamese twin Jodie should be allowed home by spring or early summer.