After a weekend of politics, celebrations and commiserations in the Dublin sunshine, we all settled back into a regular Monday morning, looking forward to the bank holiday weekend ahead.
Until we checked the weather forecast from our expert meteorologists.
Summer officially begins next Monday, so we were looking forward to a sunny session in the beer garden.
Friday will be
apparently,Oh. Well, at least Saturday will be good. It says there will be fine start to the day!
Curses. Still, Sunday! Sunday, the last day of May! Practically high summer!
We'll take what we can get. Let's double-check with Met Éireann's own website, just to be sure -
For feck's sake, Ireland. It's the first day of real, proper, scientific summer and you're talking about frost and rain and wind. We might as well pack it in and add some ice to the —
Right. That's that, so. Time to look up flights to Santorini.
Of course, this is a long-range broadcast, which are about as reliable as the national football team's scoring ability.
Here's hoping it's as wrong as can be.