Ryanair has announced extra flights on 40 different routes from Cork, Dublin, Knock and Shannon airports for summer 2018.

Alvaro Morata pounced with a late equaliser to earn Spain a 2-2 draw in their international friendly against Colombia at Estadio de La Condomina in Murcia.

Ireland has been used as a transit base to smuggle at least 6,000 Ukrainians into Britain over the past two years, according to Spanish police who have smashed a gang which supplied them with fake Polish passports.

Londoner Joanne Connor may sell her holiday home in southern Spain as a falling currency drives up the cost in pounds of her household bills and mortgage payments following the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

BAGS of lettuce — bags of flavour, bags of crispness. At least that’s what we should find when we pay anything from 89c to €3.99. 

This weekend I will be at Ballymaloe House near Midleton for the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine.

Just a few weeks to go to the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest of Food and Wine (to give it the full title) on May 20–22.

Dan Martin and Nicolas Roche both survived the intense heat, the gruelling terrain and a flurry of late attacks to preserve third and fourth overall, respectively, at the Vuelta A Espana yesterday.

I have bad news.

The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine is next weekend and there are lots of drinks-related events. 

A bus carrying a group on a religious excursion has crashed in southern Spain, killing 14 people and injuring another 38.

Former 'X Factor' contestant Ruth Lorenzo will represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest.

One of Britain’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Spain, police said.

Spanish police have arrested two suspected members of al-Qaida’s North African branch.

An ailing Rory McIlroy will be looking to the horizon and hoping continuing Singapore storms abate just long enough to leave the way clear for him to secure the Race to Dubai title.

Mark Murphy’s Q School dreams were shattered yesterday after he sustained a nasty injury competing at the Las Colinas course.

Irish amateur star Alan Dunbar finished just one shot off the bottom of the leaderboard after yesterday’s first round of European Tour second stage qualifying at Lumine Golf & Beach Club in north-east Spain.

Fourteen Irish golfers begin the second stage of the European Tour qualifying school at four venues throughout Spain today.

Ruaidhrí McGee delivered a five-star display at Frilford Heath yesterday to lie just off the pace in the first stage of the European Tour Qualifying School.

Seven people have been killed and more then 600 have been evacuated from their homes after flash floods swept through southern Spain yesterday.

Spain is still under intense financial pressure with investors demanding high rates to lend the government money, while the country’s politicians battle to avert a full-blown bailout for the economy.

Desperate Spaniards are raiding farm crops to sell at markets in an attempt to raise money as their economy falters.

Last Wednesday at Lansdowne Road, Ireland were given another lesson in the dangers of playing possession-based teams.

Ryanair is cutting five routes out of Edinburgh Airport.

MUNSTER golfers Cian McNamara, Aaron O’Callaghan and David Higgins yesterday played themselves into promising positions after the first day of the second qualifying stage of the European Tour School at four venues in Spain.

NIALL TURNER flies into Spain today to prepare for what he describes as the biggest pressure week of the professional golfing year.

A 48-year-old woman is due to appear in court later, charged in connection with a seizure of over €100,000 worth of cannabis.

IRELAND’s north west region is celebrating its status as Europe’s leading golf destination for next season.

RORY McILROY and Padraig Harrington will continue their single-minded chase for major glory by doing things their own special way next season.

Norwegian Thor Hushovd took the honours on the sixth stage of the Vuelta a Espana yesterday after pipping a whole host of riders in a massed sprint finish in Murcia.

The Munster squad and management have embarked on a week-long training camp in warm weather at La Manga in Spain.

WITH the majority of the Irish athletes due to fly into Barcelona today, Paul Hession has opted to remain at the training camp in Murcia until Monday, the day before the European Championships get under way.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN will have his sights on a medal when he puts the finishing touches to his European Championship preparations at the Irish team’s holding camp in Murcia today, although the Cork man has been keeping very much to himself since embarking on this mission.

JONATHAN BORLEE sounded a warning to Ireland’s David Gillick ahead of next week’s European championships in Barcelona where he expects to run another national record and claim Belgium’s first medal in 16 years.

DAVID GILLICK installed himself as the favourite for the gold medal in the 400m at the upcoming European championships when he posted the fastest time of the year by a European one-lap runner at 44.98 secs in the Swiss town of La Chaux-De-Fonds on Sunday.

PAUL HESSION has been the star act at Cork City Sports for the past five years so it is fitting he should launch the second phase of his build-up to the European Championships at the CIT Athletics Arena this afternoon.

Spain midfielder Andres Iniesta has a “minor muscle injury”, the national team doctor has revealed.

Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque is hoping Fernando Torres can have a run-out during Tuesday’s final World Cup warm-up match against Poland.

Red Bull Racing continued their unrivalled domination of qualifying this season as they locked out the front row for the third time in five Grands Prix.

Campos Meta has today been renamed HRT F1 (Hispania Racing Team) following the recent internal takeover by entrepreneur Jose Ramon Carabante.

THE businesspeople of Kerry are celebrating after the county was awarded the prestigious title of European Entrepreneurial Region of the Year for 2011.