If Santa Ponsa did not exist, Ireland's holiday culture would have had to create it, the place that Bundoran or Courtown used to have in our lives, a landscape of the imagination with palm trees ...

The many who stay in Santa Ponsa also make night-time forays to Magaluf, the resort, just under 10km away, where the rest of each summer's Irish student visitors stay, usually in the TRH apartment ...