Sunseekers snap up free trips

HOLIDAYS worth an estimated 60,000 were given out to 22 weary souls outside Budget Travel’s offices in Dublin’s Baggot Street for the start of their summer sale.

Now those 22 who had been queuing for more than a week in bitter cold and rain will be jetting off this summer with their partners and children to resorts in Florida, Spain, Portugal, the Canaries and elsewhere.

One of them, Catherine O’Shea, from Tallaght, was delighted after securing a family holiday in Orlando, Florida, USA even though her husband had to drop out of the queue when he developed a medical problem and was hospitalised.