A Limerick mother who trekked across northern Spain to help her cope following the sudden death of her son has penned a moving book about her journey.

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Cork, Waterford, and Dublin will be among the worst-hit cities when Europe endures more heatwaves, deepening drought, and frequent river floods later this century, if global temperatures continue to rise.

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The Camino’s endpoint, Santiago de Compostela is also a great weekend break, says Michelle Darmody.            

Cork-born poet, Liam Ó Muirthile, was inspired by his journey along the Camino, writes Marjorie Brennan

Vlad Smishkewych presents early music programme, Vox Nostra on RTÉ Lyric fm, on Sunday mornings from 7am to 10am. He was born in New Jersey to a Spanish mother and a Ukrainian father, and also performs and teaches in the early music sphere.

James Keoghan makes the discovery made by all pilgrims on the Camino — the more you walk the easier it gets.

Almost 30 years years after visiting Santiago de Compostela as a teenager Arlene Harris returned with her family to see if this corner of Spain was as special as she remembered.

The build-up to this summer’s Women’s World Cup was overshadowed by one thing: a dispute about turf.

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Ireland’s Dan Martin finished a career best in a Grand Tour yesterday when he finished seventh overall at the Vuelta A Espana.

Take a walk with Liz O’ Brien to the literal end of the earth at Finisterre, on the rugged Atlantic coast of Galicia in Spain, where for centuries pilgrims have completed the Camino de Santiago.

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A new recording has emerged of a phone call made by the driver of a crashed Spanish train just moments after the derailment.

A judge investigating Spain’s worst train disaster in decades will question safety officials from state rail firm Adif after finding basic precautions were not made, court documents revealed.

Spain will review speed limits and security systems throughout its rail network to avoid a repeat of a train crash that killed 79 people last month, a government minister said yesterday.

The driver of the train that derailed in north-western Spain, killing 79 people, has said he was travelling at twice the speed limit when he approached a treacherous bend.

Police will soon begin extracting information from the “black box” of a train that crashed last week, a Spanish court official said yesterday, potentially making clear why the driver failed to brake in time to stop the train from hurtling into a dangerous curve.

Thirty-nine people were killed and around 10 injured when a bus plunged off a viaduct in southern Italy in what Prime Minister Enrico Letta described yesterday as a huge tragedy.

The driver of a Spanish train that derailed at high speed killing 79 people has been provisionally charged with multiple cases of negligent homicide.

The driver of a Spanish train that derailed at high speed was questioned by a judge yesterday as officials tried to determine if he was responsible for the accident, which killed 79 people.

The death toll from Spain’s train derailment has risen to 79 after an injured passenger died in a hospital.

The driver of the train which crashed in north-west Spain, killing 78 people, is appearing in court this evening.

The injured driver of the Spanish train that derailed at high speed, killing 78 people and injuring dozens more, has been released from hospital but is still being held in a police station as authorities increasingly focus on his culpability.

The driver whose speeding train crashed, killing 78 people, is now being held on suspicion of negligent homicide, Spain’s interior minister says.

The Spanish justice department has said the driver of the train that derailed on Wednesday will not be appearing before a judge today as had been hoped.

Investigations into Spain’s deadliest train crash in decades have only begun, but already a key question has been answered: experts said that the driver, not a computer, was responsible for applying the brakes because a no “fail-safe” system has been installed on the dangerous stretch of bending track.

A train driver suspected of causing Spain’s deadliest train disaster for 70 years has refused to answer police questions, Spanish officials have confirmed.

Police say they have detained the driver of the train that crashed in north-western Spain and killed 78 people.

Investigators probing the Spanish rail disaster are focusing on the key question of why the train was going so fast.

The driver of a Spanish train was taken into custody in hospital last night after at least 80 people died when it derailed and caught fire in a crash which was reportedly caused by excessive speed.

A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominos, killing 80 people and maiming dozens more, according to eyewitness accounts and video footage obtained today.

A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominos, according to eyewitnesses and video footage.

Spanish investigators were today trying to find out why a passenger train jumped the tracks and sent eight cars crashing into each other killing at least 77 people and injuring more than 140.

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy is heading to the scene of the crash in north-western Spain that killed 77 people in one of the country’s worst rail accidents in decades.

At least 77 people have been killed and more than 100 injured as a passenger train derailed in north-western Spain, according to reports.

Up to 56 people have been killed after a passenger train derailed on a high-speed stretch of track in north-western Spain last night, according to reports.

At least 35 people have been killed in a train derailment in Spain, according to officials.

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