IT’S A beautiful day and we look out on a bay full of ferries coming and going and honking and hooting and waking us up earlier than we usually wake: they are going to Barcelona, to Valencia, to the next door small island of Formentera and to Talamanca, a beach across Ibiza Bay, writes Damien Enright.

So many destinations, how do you choose?

A forest fire on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza has forced up to 1,200 people from their homes, many in an upmarket residential area.

Two Irish nationals were among a group of 25 people being held in Spain tonight after police smashed a suspected drugs ring in Ibiza.