British police searching for missing toddler Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos have said they now have permission to demolish part of a farmhouse and work will start very soon.

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Thompson Holidays has the Greek destinations of Rhodes, Kos and Zakynthos on offer in August at decent prices.

Pre-summer escapes are currently available at Castlemartyr Resort. 

Under the pressure of the migrant crisis countries across Europe have closed their borders, while xenophobic parties thrive. TP O’Mahony reflects on a new book which captures the unravelling of the EU’s liberal dream. 

Derval McGovern’s house features in Home of the Year on RTÉ One on Thursday at 8.30pm.

A hero Garda who was seriously injured when he was attacked by a gang while pursuing a suspect was only weeks back from Greece where he helped rescue desperate refugees from the Mediterranean.

The EU plan to deal with migrants is a masterpiece that seeks to bridge the largely domestic fears of intransigent politicians in the EU and Turkey, writes Ann Cahill Europe Correspondent

European Union leaders have pressed Turkey to take back thousands of migrants and prevent others from setting off for Europe. But will that really offer a solution, asks Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent

Seven bodies, including those of two children, were recovered from the sea off the eastern Aegean island of Kos yesterday after a boat carrying migrants sank, Greek authorities said.

At least nine people, including four children, have died in the eastern Aegean Sea after a plastic boat carrying refugees or economic migrants overturned near the island of Kos, Greek authorities said.

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Eight people are missing after a wooden boat carrying migrants or refugees attempting to reach the Aegean island of Lesbos sank after colliding with a patrol boat during a rescue operation.

Kate and Gerry McCann’s decision to close their Find Madeleine Campaign Twitter account because of online abuse has been criticised by the mother of snatched toddler Ben Needham.

The badly decomposed body of a baby has been found on the shore of Kos island, on the frontline of the migrant influx coming from Turkey.

The body of a baby has been found washed up on a beach on the Greek island of Kos.

Greece’s coastguard says it has rescued 922 people over the past three days as they attempted to reach eastern Aegean islands clandestinely from the nearby Turkish coast.

Greece’s coast guard has rescued 922 people over the past three days as they attempted to reach eastern Aegean islands from the nearby Turkish coast.

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Seventeen refugees drowned when their boat sank yesterday off the Turkish coast while headed for the Greek island of Kos, the Anadolu Agency reported.

It began with the creation of the catch-all concept (a legal freak) of a migrant’, which obscures the difference, central to the law, between economic and political migration, between people escaping poverty and people driven from their homes by war.

Days after the world’s conscience was shocked by the image of a dead toddler washed up on a Turkish beach, all that was stopping more refugees from making the same crossing was the media frenzy on the shore.

A Syrian woman and her two young sons who drowned on a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece were buried in their hometown of Kobani, returning to the conflict-torn Syrian Kurdish region they had fled.

One family’s desperate attempt to forge a new life for themselves in fleeing the Syrian civil war has focused world attention on the refugees’ plight by means of one extraordinarily powerful image, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

The family of two small boys whose bodies washed up on a Turkish beach were Syrian refugees who had been trying to emigrate to Canada, according to reports.

An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey’s prime tourist resorts swept across social media after at least 12 Syrian refugees died trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.

Rightly or wrongly, it has long been the tradition of news media companies, including this one, to not publish some of the most disturbing photographs that emanate from war zones, areas of conflict and man-made or natural disasters.

Building more permanent camps, together with the provision of work for migrants is an idea that’s going in the right direction, writes John Lloyd

Macedonian police special forces have fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck in a no-man s land at the border with Greece.

Call on all member states to support under-pressure countries.

Five people have drowned off the Turkish coast, as they tried to reach the Greek islands, officials said.

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Dozens of migrants have arrived on the shores of the Greek island of Kos as authorities there struggle to cope with the influx of those fleeing their home countries.

Shares in the world’s largest leisure tourism group, TUI, surged yesterday after it indicated it was on course to record strong earnings growth despite the Tunisian beach massacre.

Up to 50 migrants went missing after a large dinghy sank in the Mediterranean, Sea Italian rescuers said yesterday, while more than 1,500 were picked up from other vessels over a 24-hour period.

IN World War II terms, what is happening in Calais and along the coast of Normandy with refugees trying to enter Britain represents the Western Front.

Dozens of people from the Middle East have reached the Greek island of Kos from nearby Turkey, joining thousands already camped in wretched conditions.