Felix Healy is the only Irishman, north or south, to make the leap from domestic leagues to a major international tournament. Brendan O’Brien spoke to him about 1982, the World Cup, balancing his days playing football with nights as a gigging musician and a life less ordinary.

Is that wine worth its price? This is a question I am frequently asked, mainly regarding expensive Bordeaux.

Eight elderly residents have died and 11 others were injured as a fire swept through a nursing home just outside the north-eastern Spanish city of Zaragoza.

The twice-weekly Cork to Brussels air service is shortly to be ended and Cork politicians, from Government and opposition parties alike, as well as Chamber of Commerce officials, are all screeching about what the loss will do to Cork Airport.

A blast has ripped through a fast food restaurant next to a busy subway station in Chile’s capital.

Last Thursday Opel revealed the first official pictures of the new, fifth generation, Corsa supermini.

Claire O’Reilly on why you should explore the Aragonese capital before everyone else catches on to its charms.

It’s Valentine’s Weekend, another great excuse for chocoholics to indulge. But for serious commitment to the cocoa bean, Belgians are the ones to beat.

A bomb has exploded inside the cathedral of the Spanish city of Zaragoza while worshippers were inside but no one was hurt.

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

No rugby.

Richard Fitzpatrick in Barcelona spoke to residents of the Catalonia capital on how the downturn in the Spanish economy has affected them, their prospects and their families

A father and one of his children died when a family was forced to jump 160 feet into the sea after being trapped by a wildfire.

Two people jumped into the sea and died as they fled a raging wildfire in north-eastern Spain, where flames fanned by strong winds also forced the closure of one the main roads linking Spain and France.

MANY European cities are advancing plans to combat the effects of climate change, with some coming up with novel proposals that could be of interest here — especially in the wake of the huge damage caused by floods in Cork and several other Irish urban areas in 2009.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy defended his government’s harsh austerity measures aimed at correcting the country’s grim economic forecast, a day after tens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets to protest his handling of the country’s worst crisis in decades.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy today defended his government’s harsh austerity measures aimed at correcting Spain’s grim economic forecast, one day after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in protest against his handling of the country’s worst crisis in decades.

Police in Spain have arrested and charged a man with illegally leaking an early version of a new Madonna song.

IT has been a very busy period on the southern circuit in the past month and more and the action remains furious this weekend with the final of the Red Mill Masters at Waterford on Saturday backed up by the final of the Tyrur Kennels Open 575 at Curraheen as well as top open action at Tralee and Limerick.

THE parents of an Irish university student who fell to his death from a motorway bridge in northern Spain are preparing to travel to Zaragoza today to bring his body home.

The body of a young Irishman has been found in Spain.

A Spanish bullfighter is recovering from a five hour operation to repair his face after a terrifying goring in the north-eastern city of Zaragoza, according to a hospital official.

A group of Spanish nuns is being investigated for possible tax evasion after reporting a huge sum of cash stolen from their convent.

Barcelona captain Carles Puyol is back in training ahead of tomorrow’s Primera Division match at home to Zaragoza and looks set to be fit to face Arsenal in the teams’ Champions League last 16 second leg on Tuesday night.

The image of the beach resort of Acapulco has taken a new hit from Mexico’s drug violence, with 27 people killed in less than a day, including 14 men whose bodies were found with their heads chopped off at a shopping centre.

Ryanair has announced it would open its 44th base at Seville in November this year.

World 800m champion Caster Semenya will have to wait a little longer before learning whether she will be allowed to compete again after undergoing a gender test.

Ryanair announced today that it will open five new routes from Bologna to Fez, Lanzarote, Marrakesh, Tenerife and Zaragoza from November 2010.

Caster Semenya is expected to finally learn whether she can resume her athletics career when South Africa’s Minister of Sport and Recreation hosts a press conference in Johannesburg this afternoon.

International Association of Athletics Federations president Lamine Diack today confirmed there will be a resolution to the gender row surrounding Caster Semenya by the end of June.

WORLD 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has been left out of a preliminary South Africa squad to compete at the African Athletics Championships in Kenya later this year.

Ryanair has today announced that it is to open its 38th base at Malaga in June 2010 with four based aircraft and 19 new routes being launched.

IT IS early April and the train from Budejovice in the Czech Republic to Linz in Austria takes us through a wintry countryside, not a wild flower, weed or blade of new grass yet to be seen.

THERE is a growing recognition that the age of cheap, or in our case free, domestic water is coming to an end.

Ryanair have announced five new routes from Brussels Charleroi to Bergerac, Limoges, Perpignan, Porto and Zaragoza.

A school bus carrying about 50 students flipped over in north-eastern Spain today, injuring 10 of them.

A small bomb exploded on a road in northern Spain today after the armed Basque separatist group ETA made a warning call about four bombs.

Frank Rijkaard has pleaded with Barcelona fans not to abuse Jose Mourinho and his Chelsea team.

BARCELONA striker Samuel Eto’o wants tougher punishments for racist abuse after being subjected to insults in a league match against Real Zaragoza.

Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o tried to leave the pitch after being subjected to monkey chanting against Real Zaragoza last night.

Two small bombs exploded today near a state-run hotel in the northern Spanish city of Zaragoza after a warning call from the separatist group ETA, causing no injuries and minor damage, police said.