A retired Irish Bus manager received fatal injuries when he fell on the steps of a church in Spain when he went to check out Mass times.

Tributes have been paid to a 21-year-old Corkman who drowned in a swimming pool, hours after jetting out to Spain on his first foreign holiday.

Latest: It is understood that the man who died today's accident in Spain is from the mid-Cork area.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

The Roc Lago Rojo hotel in Torremolinos is currently one of Travelfox.ie’s best selling hotels and is included in a list of over 55 holidays by the company. 

While Neidín may be enjoying the downtime and a well-deserved rest, stamping hoofprints all over his regular postcards from Torremolinos, The Menu has the maps and charts spread out all over the table in the war-room, planning for the 2015 culinary campaign ahead. 

A Donegal teenager has fallen to his death while on a family holiday in Spain.

A notorious criminal suspected of killing an innocent Irish father in front of his terrified family during a sun holiday in Spain has finally been captured after a three-year manhunt.

Bah, humbug! Can’t stand the stress, jingle bells and commercialism of Christmas? Pól Ó Conghaile has suggestions for escaping it entirely.

Two Irish backpackers were critically injured after they were attacked in a boarding house in Melbourne, Australia, in the early hours of yesterday morning.

An Irish man has been injured in a shooting incident in Spain.

'The Royle Family' star Sue Johnston is set to stir up trouble when she joins the cast of 'Coronation Street', producer Phil Collinson confirmed today.

TRAVEL agents around the country are taking on extra staff to deal with the large volume of holiday queries.

Fed up with forced family frolics and catty couples on Christmas Day? Pack your bags, says Pól Ó Conghaile Christmas is the ideal time for solo travellers to get away

TECH-SAVVY Niamh Sheffield used her Apple iPhone to catch a thief while on holidays in Spain this week.

TAKE A CRUISE ON A SWEDISH CANAL

Heaps of holly at Hayfield Manor, Co Cork

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ONCE upon a time, Spain’s Costa del Sol was a simple string of fishing villages.

THE family of Irishman John O’Neill fear his body will not be returned to Ireland for weeks because it is part of an ongoing Spanish police investigation.

THE innocent Irish father-of-two who was brutally gunned down after a Spanish pub row escalated out of control only joined the argument as a peacemaker.

“IT could have happened to anyone.”

A MANHUNT is under way in southern Spain after an Irish father-of-two was shot dead in front of his partner while celebrating a friend’s wedding.

EACH year at this time, I see it as my duty to tell you what’s going to happen next year.

THEY go back a long way together, the Cork and Waterford football managers.

The captain of the North's most successful football team has been arrested during a stag trip to Spain.

Detectives in Spain are probing possible links between the gangland style shooting of a Dublin man in Costa del Sol and criminal connections in Ireland.

An Irish man has been shot dead in a gangland-style attack in the resort of Benalmadena, near Torremolinos in Spain at approximately 11.30pm last night.

A bomb exploded on a beach in the popular Spanish resort of Torremolinos, a government department said today.

PAULINE CURLEY was in an amusement park in Torremolinos with her husband, Adrian, and son, Emmett — just 24 hours into their Spanish holiday — when she got news of her Olympic selection.

THE gardaí may have built up a mountain of overtime hours ensuring that we all stay safe on the roads this weekend, but who’s protecting us in the airports, I ask you?

An Italian man held on suspicion of trying to extort money from the parents of missing British 4-year-old Madeleine McCann is to appear before Spain's National Court tonight.

A couple accused of trying to extort money from Madeleine McCann’s family will appear in court today, Spanish police said.

AN Italian man and Portuguese woman who allegedly tried to extort money from the parents of missing British four-year-old Madeleine McCann remained in custody in southern Spain yesterday pending further questioning, a police spokeswoman said.

An Italian man and Portuguese woman who allegedly tried to extort money from the parents of missing British four-year-old Madeline McCann remained in custody in southern Spain today pending further questioning, a police spokeswoman said.

A FORMER IRA member was jailed for six years yesterday over a plot to blow up a British military base in Germany.

A former member of the IRA was convicted today for his role in a 1989 attack on a British military base in Germany and sentenced to six years in jail.

A 45-year-old IRA suspect went on trial today on charges of attempted murder for a bungled 1989 attack on a British base in Germany.

A suspected IRA man was charged in Germany today with a bomb attack on a British army base in Germany nearly 17 years ago.

A suspected member of the IRA wanted over an 1989 attack on a British army base in Germany has been extradited from Spain, prosecutors said today.

REPUBLICANS last night urged Spanish authorities to free a suspected IRA bomber wanted in Germany over a plot to blow up a British military base.

Republicans tonight urged Spanish authorities to free a suspected IRA bomber wanted in Germany over a plot to blow up a British military base.

A suspected IRA bomber was being held today by Spanish police over a mortar attack on a British military base in Germany.