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<p>Classic Irish warm-weather dining promised “extra salad cream and a slice of ham if you’re lucky” but it could just as well have prescribed “sure it’s too hot for anything else”.</p>

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Olivia Kelleher: Reaction to good weather shows off unique Irish talent for gratitude

Only those who keep their summer clothes in a suitcase under the bed truly know the pure joy of a fleeting Irish heatwave

<p>Ann O’Regan, Bríd O’Callaghan, Gerardine Coleman, Mary Tupper, Anne Deane, and Máiréad Walsh enjoying lunch at Jim Edwards in Kinsale, Co Cork. It's only a short trip from their homes in Riverstick, Ballinhassig, and Kinsale, but it took them over a year to get together in a pub again. Picture: Neil Michael</p>

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Laughter, clinking glasses, and queues out the door as indoor hospitality reopens

<p> John and Francis Brennan seated at the champagne bar at the Park Hotel, Kenmare. Pictures: Dan Linehan</p>

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Watch: Look inside John and Francis Brennan’s new-look Park Hotel in Kenmare

'Be Proud, Be Sound': Cork anti-litter campaign launched ahead of summer

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'Be Proud, Be Sound': Cork anti-litter campaign launched ahead of summer

Surge in bookings for summer staycations as restrictions likely to lift

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Surge in bookings for summer staycations as restrictions likely to lift

Houses at the Coast of Ireland

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Too early to say if staycations can happen this summer, says Paschal Donohoe