DUBLIN-based specialist tour operator Croatia Tours is one of the few Irish travel companies that can claim to be experiencing an increase in demand for the 2010 summer holiday season.

WITH fewer and fewer people putting their faith in the Government, it seems more and more people are putting their faith in God.

PUTTING the body of Padre Pio on display 40 years after his death gives those who would deride such expressions of faith an opportunity to deride and sneer.

The body of saint Padre Pio went on public display today in an southern Italian town where thousands have gathered to pray to the mystic monk some believe bore the signs of Jesus’ crucifixion.