Travel insurance allows you prepare for the unexpected: People with their luggage walk past heavy traffic on Dublin's M50 towards the airport as fuel protests block the road. And one of the key ones is taking out travel insurance. [ Travel insurance – don’t leave home without itOpens in new window ]In spite of that, as many as one in three holidaymakers had no travel insurance, rising to almost half of those under the age of 35. The cheapest policies we priced offered cancellation cover worth €1,000 – which wouldn’t make much of a dent in a family holiday overseas – while the cancellation cover for the most expensive of those policies was €6,000. Someone who hits 70 or 75 can often be simply denied insurance altogether, even if they have no known medical issues.

Source: The Irish Times April 10, 2026 14:48 UTC