Robert Delves was on holiday with his wife, three children and their extended family in the El Medano resort on the South of Tenerife.
At around half one last night the 42 year old fell to his death from a third floor balcony.
It's understood emergency services attended the scene, however Mr Delves died from his injuries.
Police are believed to be treating the death as an accident, and the Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance through the Irish Embassy in Madrid.
Northern Irish detectives investigating the murder of a Co. Monaghan teenager are appealing for witnesses.
19 year old Jason McGovern was attacked twice during a night out with friends in Omagh, Co. Tyrone on Sunday.
He was later found dead at a friend's house in Monaghan on New Year's Eve.
Police are looking for pedestrians or motorists in the vicinity of the Terrace pub and Sally O'Briens nightclub on Sunday night.
Gardai have confirmed that the number of mobile speed cameras zones is being increased.
The GoSafe vans will be rolled out at hundreds of additional accident blackspots around the country in the coming weeks.
The existing mobile camera locations are sign posted and listed on the Garda website but around €1 million is collected every month from offending drivers.
A Columbian factory is to begin designing bullet proof clothes for children for the American market.
Miguel Caballero had been making bullet proof clothes at his factory in Bogota for politicians and other public figures for over twenty years.
The decision to switch to a new line of t-shirts and vests followed last months massacre of 20 children and staff at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut.
It's being reported that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie secretly tied the knot on Christmas Day.
Hollywood's hottest couple who announced their engagement in April 2012 are said to have got married on the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean.
They've been on holiday on a private estate along with their six children.
'Brangelina' have been together 7 years.
