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LAST UPDATE | 5 Jul 2018
THE WARM WEATHER will continue today, with temperatures hitting 26 degrees – but only after some cloud.
Met Éireann says that today will be dry in most areas with hazy sunshine in the south and southeast.
Otherwise, it will be mostly cloudy with a little patchy mist or drizzle in western coastal areas.
“Maximum temperatures will range from 16 to 21 Celsius in the southwest, west and north, but it will be quite warm elsewhere, with values of 22 to 26 Celsius, warmest in the south and southeast. Winds mostly light to moderate, northwesterly in direction.”
Tomorrow will see a return to dry, warm and sunny conditions with temperatures in the low to mid-twenties and the weekend will be largely the same, with the chance of an odd light shower.
Into the weekend, Met Éireann is predicting “warm and mostly sunny conditions” on Saturday, with temperatures hitting up to 28 degrees and cloudier, cooler weather on Sunday.
Early indications are that the good weather will continue for most of next week.
A national drought warning has been extended until next Wednesday, with Met Éireann saying that the weather will exacerbate drought conditions.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Met Éireann’s Evelyn Cusack said that the outlook for the rest of the week, the weekend and the next week is dry weather.
“We could be back into the mid 20s or perhaps the high 20s at the weekend, and into next week as well,” she said.
When asked exactly why Ireland has been enjoying such good weather in recent times, Cusack cited the weather system that came up from the Azores and added “there’s no reason as such, there’s just variability”.
Cusack said that how the current weather system has operated is similar to that of the recent Storm Emma, albeit with warm, sunny weather instead of snowy weather.
“We’ve had everything now over the past nine months,” she said.
Also speaking on RTÉ was Kate Gannon, corporate affairs manager at Irish Water.
She said that tomorrow’s nationwide hosepipe ban will mean that there will be a number of things that people can’t do for the month of July, such as watering their garden with a hose, or washing their car in a similar fashion.
“Effectively, it’s asking people to stop using water for non-essential use,” she said.
Gannon said that, since Dublin’s hosepipe ban came into effect, Irish Water had seen a “positive trend” in people conserving water.
However, even with the small pockets of rain across the country today, the situation doesn’t look like stabilising anytime soon.
“There’s been little or no rainfall for the past 30 days,” she said. “And there’s little to no rain forecast for the next 10 days… Even if it did start to rain, and it kept raining all through next week and the week after, it would be days or weeks of it before the water reaches the rivers, lakes and wells.”
With reporting from Sean Murray
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Sentence is still too lenient. 4 times the legal limit, kills one person and paralysis for another.
I listened to the mother of Kate being interviewed on Newstalk and thought she was a lovely, brave woman going through a terrible time. She did not think it would serve any purpose a drunk driver going to prison. She asked that no one get into a car being driven by someone who had been drinking.
We would all be safer if you drink but not drive.
“Out of line with other decided cases” – which clearly must have been too lenient as well! So judges perpetuate their inadequate sentencing because of precedent.
It seems to be the very flawed system on which our entire legal system operates. Basically an original mistake gets extended forever.
This again leaves a huge question mark over the severity of the sentence handed out yesterday to the ex fireman who had consensual sex with a 16 year old and got 7 years in prison. Murdering one person and paralysing another is only four years.
You can’t have consensual sex with a minor. They cannot give consent. This, however, is a disgrace and no deterrent. Judges are totally out of touch with the real world.
If I had too much to drink, killed someone with a weapon and claimed it was an accident? What sentence would I get, If any and the judicial system is a joke in this country.
As I said yesterday completely incompetent Judges…..joke
How the Fcuk is that allowed?
Politicians allow it, they have a bar in their workplace and consume alcohol while working.
They should have doubled his sentence for having the neck to appeal. Outrageous decision.
This country and its judicial system are an absolute joke. What kind of an example does this give. 4 years for what he did. His first sentence was too lenient in my eyes.
An embarrassment
Wonder if I paralysed a judges daughter would I just get the 1 year?
Hold on went from seven to four years. He should of been dragged out and shot.
Can this also set a precedent,for appeal, for that drink drivers sentence last week? On the basis of this, what sentence should have been imposed on the idiot in Donegal. The judiciary in this country is a shambles.
The problem seems to be that there is no central authority issuing guidelines so you have each judge in their own little fiefdom sentencing people according to their own interpretation of the law. We really need minimum sentences and a system where if a judge feels that a particular case warrants a lesser sentence due to mitigating circumstances the case is referred to a higher court.
There should be a mandatory minimum sentence for anyone who kills or maims another person by driving while drunk. Say 12 years and lifetime ban from driving with no chance of appeal, this would act as a good deterrent.
€206877
This is how much the state will save by this appeal. Its in the states interest to grant these appeals. This is why we have laughable sentencing laws. The state is far more interested in money than its citizens. We have seen this again and again. Money trumps life.
http://www.iprt.ie/prison-facts-2
How much will the paralysed women receive for care help?
If only Dexter Morgan was real
Is that judge off his nut? If anything the original sentence was too lenient!
It shows the courts are getting more comfortable with this type of crime hence the low sentence
So they’re trying to extend the sentence in that Donegal case while reducing the sentence in this one? Does our legal system have any clue what it’s doing?
Another nonsense sentence for causing such devestation due to being an idiot behind the wheel driving drunk. These judges are clearly blotto when they hand down these terms.
Who cares what you said.
F*ck off troll.
10 years . End of story
Sentencing in this country especially for drink driving road accidents are a disgrace.
A central tenet of democracy is that the branches of Government must be independent of each other. The executive enacts legislation and the judiciary interprets the wording of a given statute when it is tested by way of using it to prosecute a crime. The judges’ interpretation becomes a precedent for other cases of a similar nature into the future. This is called “common law” and is equally as binding as legislation, and is used throughout the land. Sentencing is limited by a variety of factors: legislation, “mandatory sentencing”, and the concept of “fairness.” This chap’s sentence has to be proportionate to those who previously did similar and with a similar outcome. The Victim Impact Statement serves no function other than to give the victims a voice (make them “feel better”.)
Excuse the language but that’s a FN joke. No justice here at all.
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