Hi °C | Lo °C Making an Olé show of myself in Spain’s region of romance
ORNA Cunningham embraces the emotion as she heads in from the Costa del Sol to a different world in Andalusia.
So why do Spanish parties only get going at about 2am?
MONDAY: The travel junkies of the world converge on Madrid each January for Fitur, a babel of travel talk where the Hispanic world shows off its wares for the new year.
Wish you were here?
Travel books let you explore the world from the comfort of your armchair... and sometimes that's very much for the best
The Incredible Holiday Roadshow rolls into town
MONDAY: Holiday World in snowy Belfast. A curiosity: the first stall visitors to the exhibition encountered in the King's Hall was from Dublin Airport.
Lanzarote: Exclusive and all-inclusive
WE’RE A bit behind our British counterparts, but Irish holidaymakers are warming to the idea – and value – of all-inclusive holidays.
Skiing at any time of year brings back those childhood feelings
MONDAY: The Anna Livia lounge in Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 is an improvement on its sister in Terminal 1.
Getting there
Exclusive Irish agents for the Paradores group are MAP travel -- maptravel.ie -- in O'Connell Street, Dublin, for a hands-on personal approach to tours and accommodation -- 01-8783117.
The Herald Holiday Awards 2013
We've travelled more than 135,000km in the last year, visited five continents, stayed in over 60 cities - and queued up in more airports than we'd care to remember.
Why I summer in Dublin and winter in Oz
DUBLIN, I love you... but you're bringing me down. Between the economy, the dismal sub-zero weather and the mild depression that has gripped the entire nation, my beloved city sometimes feels like it's on the ropes.
LA woman or New York gal?
EAST or West? Vicki Notaro gives her verdict after a break with pals in both New York and Los Angeles.
East is Eden
IT'S cutting edge London, filled with shops, galleries and restaurants . . . and it's not the West End. Siobhan Norton finds a world that's a far cry from Walford.
- Council sent €700 rent demand to dead dad in flat
- Shay's wife in town for first time since her split from soccer star
- Daredevil nun (75) and MS sufferer in charity skydive
- Family of 12 are evicted over €300 shortfall in rent – now council put them in hotel costing €6,000pm
- Young mother kidnapped and raped over six days
- Council sent €700 rent demand to dead dad in flat
- Shay's wife in town for first time since her split from soccer star
- Daredevil nun (75) and MS sufferer in charity skydive
- Family of 12 are evicted over €300 shortfall in rent – now council put them in hotel costing €6,000pm
- Young mother kidnapped and raped over six days
Opinion
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Now Nell focuses on being a model mum
Model and fitness fanatic Nell McAndrew has shown off her new baby daughter – and says that children are now her priority.
A Tuscan wedding for the lovely Virginia, but she'll not be wearing white
DUBLIN Housewives star Virginia Macari is ready to become a blushing bride after finally setting a date for her nuptials – but she won't be the one dressed in white.
Madonna looks pants again as younger stars rock Billboards
SHE got panned for wearing lingerie at the Met Ball.
Keanes snap up 'bargain' €1.6m Malahide mansion
THEY are the new 'Posh and Becks' of LA, but Claudine and Robbie Keane are already planning their lives back home in Ireland.
Stars shine as Justin debuts folk hero role
IN the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, Justin Timberlake (inset) sings music set to a very different beat than Suit and Tie.
We never see Wanted Siva, complains big sister Hazel
FORMER popstar Hazel Kaneswaran has shunned the limelight for a quiet family life, but there is one member of her clan who she rarely sees – chart-topping boyband star Siva.
Who wants to be next 1D? Form an orderly queue...
NIALL Horan would want to watch his back. Hundreds of fresh-faced, pop-star hopefuls turned out in force yesterday in Dublin as the first stage of auditions for Louis Walsh's new boy band got under way at the Button Factory.
Hubby David lands role in Cecelia movie
BEST-SELLING author Cecelia Ahern is proving influential both on and off the page after husband David Keoghan landed a role in one of her films.
Stars and royals in front row for Dior
FASHION house Dior showed it still has glittering star power with its colourful, sexy, summer 2014 show in Monaco.
ROG treated badly by Kidney – wife
THE wife of Ireland rugby legend Ronan O'Gara has slammed former head coach Declan Kidney and the IRFU over their treatment of her husband in the months before he retired.
