Greece looks set to start sending migrants back to Turkey from the beginning of next week after a proposed "one in, one out" scheme apparently won the approval of EU leaders in Brussels.

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From budget breaks in Bodrum to direct flights to Canada, Travel Writer of the Year Pól Ó Conghaile picks his top overseas destinations for 2014.

THE cruises sector of the global travel industry has been defying recessionary trends and growing non-stop, with average annual growth of 9%.

The inquiry into the Chile mine collapse that trapped 33 men for more than two months has ended with no charges filed, drawing angry responses from the rescued men.

Antonio Banderas will star in a movie as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for more than two months in 2010, and the charismatic survivor he’s playing couldn’t be happier.

Ferries have resumed sailing to Greek islands for the first time in a week after the government used emergency powers to force striking seamen back to work.

I was embarrassed by our finance minister’s recent glib and disparaging put-down of our Greek cousins.

Ferry services to Greek islands and Italy were halted today by a 48-hour strike that left thousands of islanders stranded and disrupted holidaymakers’ plans at the start of the country’s vital tourism season.

ZOFFANY is fancied to show his true colours in the Listed Golden Fleece Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

ON Easter Monday, at noon, newly released after a few days in the garage (by which I mean the hospital), I sat on a tussock in a warm spot by the bay and listened to the surf gently break and thanked the gods for being alive on such a day.

Thousands of Irish people have had their holidays cancelled following the collapse of XL Leisure Ireland.

Holidaymakers have been left stranded after tour operator XL Leisure Group went into administration and grounded all flights.

A globetrotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the US by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said.

THERE are people out there, for a variety of reasons, who are restricted in their choice of holiday even in an age when more and more people, young and old, are becoming wildly adventurous.