Gibraltar have confirmed their Euro 2016 home qualifier against Ireland next year will take place in Faro.

LIKE thousands more this year, the McGuckins and their children trooped into the Aparthotel Mourabel in Vilamoura last Friday evening for a one-week stay.

Firefighters battled today to extinguish two large fires that swept through Portugal’s Algarve province after three days of intense blazes destroyed thousands of acres of forest and protected lands.

Catherine Shanahan is relishing the sight of fit young men kicking a ball.