Travel trends for the year ahead: where, when and how Irish holidaymakers are booking trips in 2024
Conor Pope: As a new year begins and bookings for the months ahead take off, a shift in travel patterns is emerging
Conor Pope: As a new year begins and bookings for the months ahead take off, a shift in travel patterns is emerging
Velvet Strand Beach in Portmarnock, Dublin, was one of a number of busy seaside locations as the mercury hit 28 degrees in some parts
Blaze in Alexandroupolis and Evros areas near Turkish border blamed for 20 of the 21 wildfire-related deaths in country last week
European Union officials have blamed climate change for the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires
Country’s largest forest blaze continues to burn out of control for fifth day near city of Alexandroupolis as heatwave grips Continent
Authorities examining whether the group might have been migrants who entered the country through the nearby border with Turkey
Itching for full-scale societal upheaval is unlikely to provoke necessary technological progress
Mercury was also expected to rise to 40 degrees in the Basque Country
Travel group expects increased demand for holidays in northern Europe and during cooler months
Who in their right mind goes sight-seeing in 40-degree heat? Irish tourists, that’s who
Richard Pine moved from Ireland to Corfu 20 years ago, where raging fires this week sparked mass evacuations on an island where almost everyone’s livelihood is linked to tourism
We jet into the mind-melting heat because our minds are melted by habitude
Parched conditions and subsequent fires account for more than 70 people injured and three killed
Wildfires in north America and southern Europe, storms of hailstones the size of tennis balls in Italy and flooding in Donegal - this summer has shown the growing risks from the climate crisis
Go to a garden centre and you will pay the same 13.5 per cent tax for a packet of environment-enhancing wildflower seeds as for a bag of peat compost, which strips bogs of their sequestered carbon
Secretary general António Guterres appeals for renewable energy switch as ‘global boiling’ arrives
Temperatures in Italy set to drop slightly in coming days as southern Europe’s latest heatwave draws to a close
Professionals have gone on holidays, leaving no one to fix the air-conditioning, and the tourists keep coming, squeezing locals out of the beaches, pubs and restaurants
Searing heatwaves impacting Europe would have been almost impossible without climate change, scientists report
Thirty-four people killed, thousands evacuated while Sicily’s airport closes and power cuts hit Malta
Record temperatures no longer rare due to warming caused by burning fossil fuels and other human activities, say scientists
Dublin family forced to shelter in a school after being evacuated from their hotel in Rhodes
Almost 19,000 helped to safety in Rhodes amid biggest emergency operation of its kind in country’s history
Travel companies and airlines offering varying help to leave islands, but flights out continue as scheduled
Whole hillside glowed red as Ronan McGreevy watched wildfires spread during his Greek holiday
DFA warns against travel to affected areas in Greece as Irishwoman tells of ‘horrendous’ trip
Airline will accept temporary travel documentation issued by Greek police from passengers departing from Rhodes
Maggie McManus describes seeing ‘fires raging in the dark’ as her family’s plane descended to the Greek island
Ryanair says Rhodes flights operating as normal and it will accept temporary travel papers issued by Greek police
Historic moment in Irish sport at Women’s World Cup, while Barbenheimer makes for an exciting weekend in film
Last summer an estimated 61,672 died from heat-related conditions in Europe
European Travel Commission says tourism industries of cooler countries like Ireland may benefit from trend
David McWilliams: The concept sounds attractive but it is not the catch-all cure for global warming
There is no sugar-coating the alarming heat being experienced throughout the world. But there is hope
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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