To be fair, while I have had minor upsets I have never experienced anything as bad as some of the stories I have heard from listeners to my show on 96FM.

They've been robbed by staff working in their apartment blocks, put in boozy blocks that rocked with alcohol and drug fuelled parties, even though they had small children themselves.

I've heard of cockroaches and vermin sharing filthy, smelly, living quarters that often resemble building sites, located in the back end of no-where.

Add to this, the regular and industry acceptable charter flight delays and ask why we put ourselves through all of this misery year after year and all in the name of relaxation and fun!

Then ask yourself is it any wonder that going on holiday is considered one of the most stressful of all life experiences, it's up there with death and divorce. And post holiday time is second only to Christmas for sending warring couples into solicitors to start divorce proceedings.

So if you were thinking of booking a holiday, maybe you should think again on the basis that all of that stress can't possibly be good for anyone…

Questionable practice

It's about time that the decisions of the DPP were made transparent and the public made aware of the reasons behind the decision not to prosecute people for committing crimes.

Take the case of 23-year-old Adrian Moynihan who suffocated inside a Cork night club during an incident with bouncers.

The DPP ruled out any prosecution over this death despite strong and persistent demands from his parents, Andrew and Elisabeth for justice.

The death of Adrian was devastating for the parents, the decision not to prosecute was also heart breaking but not to be told why the prosecution wasn't going ahead was simply adding insult to injury.

The Moynihans are not the only people to criticise this daft policy of not giving reason not to prosecute, there have been a chorus of complaints from victims of violence and families of murder victims.

The DPP isn't an office, it is a person like you or I and just like you and I, he is prone to getting things wrong from time to time so he should be held accountable for the decisions of such magnitude that he makes.

The DPP, James Hamilton has at least opened the debate on making his office transparent and that's to be welcomed, sadly for the likes of the Moynihan's even if it does come about, it is unlikely to be retrospective...

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