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MORE WARM AND sunny weather is expected this week with temperatures reaching as high as 24 degrees most days, according to Met Éireann.
Today, the meteorological service estimates dry and sunny weather for most of the country with highs of 22 degrees expected in the west and a dry night ahead.
Warm and dry weather is forecast for tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday with Met Éireann estimating highs of 24 degrees, some of the warmest temperatures of the year so far.
This weather pattern is expected to continue towards the end of the week and into the June bank holiday weekend. Rainfall levels for the entire country are “well below normal”, according to Met Éireann.
Pollen levels will remain low to moderate across the country while Met Éireann are reminding the public to remain “SunSmart” – as bright, clear and sunny weather is expected every day.
Last Saturday saw the warmest day so far recorded by the weather service, with the highest temperature recorded at 23.3 degrees in Roscommon.
Today was the warmest day of the year so far reaching 23.3°C in Mount Dillon, Co. Roscommon. 😎 📈 🌡️
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) May 27, 2023
It will feel a bit cooler tomorrow though. ⛅️
Check out the forecast for your area 👇https://t.co/9gKN6SVok4 pic.twitter.com/sVT788I2tP
The west of the country is expected to see their warm weather continue throughout the week, with the warmest temperatures forecast for the western and south-western coast.
Very light breezes are expected most days, with the lowest temperatures each day in the mid-teens across the country.
Towards the end of the week, it is expected that high atmospheric pressure will continue and allow for warm and sunny spells to stick around over the bank holiday weekend, with temperatures expected to reach the “high teens or low twenties”.
Met Éireann suggest that high atmospheric pressure in the weather places the country’s weather in a “blocking pattern” – when the high pressure blocks out and prevents other weather types from entering the atmosphere.
This pressure was attributed to the warm weather experienced across the country last week, and has allowed Met Éireann to forecast “above average” temperatures over the next two weeks.
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He looks nothing like Liam Neeson!
Should this not have been state property since it was made ?
Not if it was made by his family.
And was it ?
Jaysus I couldn’t tell you, but I would imagine so if his grand-niece had it.
There was no autopsy or coronial inquiry so it could only have been made by his family.
A true Irish hero
Poignant and creepy at the same time.
WTF is a death mask?
It’s a quaint little British execution ritual that was practical in the days before cameras, but was continued even after the advent of cameras, and which former British colonies such as Malaysia and Singapore still do today. When someone is executed, and as only a handful of officials are allowed to be present, a plaster cast of the executed persons face is made postmortem as proof that they had been executed, and could then be publicly displayed. I don’t know why one would have been made of Collins.
Would love to have seen it go to Collin’s barracks in Cork.
Yes he was a true son of Cork, until ye shot him.
@ Brian , that was sheer brilliance
Dev’s crowd shot him !
Lol, Brian :)
They should leave us at least keep the bullet then.
…but they were still from Cork!
A true irish warrior.alot of lives could of been saved had he not been killed
ffs gimme a break,what about having some respect for people who had a profound impact on our history without being so flippant,can’t you people take sometime out and be more informed,I hate stupid comments
Won’t be queuing up to see that, not even if it was Elvis’s!!
Free world is great! You actually don’t have too!
Dev set him up. COLLINS knew he signed his death warrant when he signed the treaty. He also knew the orange thugs of Carson et Al were armed to the teeth , British officers in Kildale were allowed not to engage loyalists forces and the blood thirsty Churchill made it very clear to Collins that not signing the treaty would result in huge deaths, mainly Catholic. It was a stepping stone and De Velera is no hero of mine. Using collins as a scapegoat. He only escaped execution in 1916 because he was American.
Michael Collins true Irish hero.
God rest him.
My daughters in the background pic
Béal na mBláth not Béal Na mBláth.
A hero……..also a ‘terrorist’ if he existed today. Just read the laws brought in recently. Red thumb this comment away but you know its true. This govt who lay wreaths at his grave, would all be screaming for his arrest. Because traitors wouldnt be around long if he was here.
Cop on. Terrorists . FFS. He got rid of the British terrorists and if that means shooting black and tans and the Cairo gang then that makes him a liberator of Ireland from British rule. War is not meant to be nice.
did you not get what i meant you complete idiot. Im highlighting the hypocracy of our govt who call him a hero while doing being complete traitors to this country. Are you one of those thickos who think loosing our soveignity is fine unless its to the british?
It wasn’t presented by Collins’ nieces, it was acquired for the visitor’s centre by Private Noel McDonnell. Helen Collins and Mary Claire O’Malley were just there to view it on the day.
Anybody care to explain WTF a death mask is?
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