Travel advice and ideas from Barry Coughlan

GoHop has seven nights in Vietnam with visits to Hanoi, Halong Bay and Ho Chi Minh City.

VIETNAM will prosecute anyone responsible for the sinking of a tour boat in Halong Bay that killed 12 people, officials said at the weekend, as relatives arrived to take home the victims’ bodies.

TURKEY attracted more than 90,000 visitors from Ireland this year, and Sunworld Holidays has just launched the most extensive holiday programme ever from Ireland.