‘We’re all wearing winter clothes and it’s terrible’

IF you’re looking for sun, then you’ll have to wait until August to get a tan, or else catch a plane to Spain.

That was the overwhelming opinion on Cork’s Patrick Street yesterday afternoon among rain-dodging tourists and umbrella-wielding shoppers.

“My dad said it was like this 20 years ago and even then it wasn’t as bad,” said 17-year-old Niamh O’Brien yesterday.