We’re well used to ‘making the best of it’ when it comes to Irish weather, but this summer, it’s been particularly tough to keep the disillusionment (like the rain) at bay.
Coupled with the fact that we enjoyed a glorious heatwave not so long ago in 2013 (and last year was pretty good too), our hankering for sunshine is at a premium.
Over the past week, we ran a competition to find the photograph that perfectly summs up an Irish 'summer' and we received some brilliant entries.
But there could only be one winner of the lovely two-night B&B stay for two adults at Mount Wolseley Hotel Spa & Country Club in County Carlow, with an evening meal on one night - and that's Emma Meehan's entry 'Throw another shrimp on the bah-bie':
@NewstalkFM Throw another shrimp on the bah-bie!!! pic.twitter.com/6XSqfgOytV
— Emma Meehan (@EmmaMMee) July 31, 2015
And here are some more of our favourites:
@NewstalkFM rainy night in Dublin, another wonderful Irish summer! pic.twitter.com/vLHZI6hUsW
— Colin Stone (@Unimog4me) July 28, 2015
@NewstalkFM Odhran and Laoise Dunne enjoy some of the better weather we had this summer in Ballyroan Co. Laois. pic.twitter.com/6axDwMHtMx
— Darragh Dunne (@laoiseman) July 28, 2015
@NewstalkFM Near Crosshaven / Church Bay / Fennells Bay, Co. Cork #irishsummer pic.twitter.com/SqWYyvQ0Pg
— aidan o driscoll (@aidanodr) July 28, 2015
@NewstalkFM "making the most of it" , in Quilty Co Clare pic.twitter.com/KCBamUf5HG
— Lisa Daly (@LisaDaly3) July 28, 2015
@NewstalkFM Clogherhead after the rain pic.twitter.com/9JMbX7t2WW
— two Sheds (@has2sheds) July 28, 2015
