Holidays in Spain turn to tragedy

A young Irish woman has died and Garda Ombudsman Commissioner Kieran Fitzgerald is in a critical condition after separate holiday accidents in Spain.

Tributes were paid last night to the 21-year-old woman from Mayfield, on the northside of Cork city, who died after falling from a balcony on the holiday island of Tenerife on Wednesday.

Her distraught friends took to social media to pay tribute to her, with one describing her as a “gorgeous young girl with a contagious smile”, while another said she was a “sweet, beautiful and genuine girl”.