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.

Magaluf is edgier, noisier, dirtier, bigger and more aggressive, and it has what Santa Ponsa does not: “the Strip”, or Punta Ballena, a frenetic neon-lit street lined with lap-dancing clubs ...