Snow joke: What a difference a week makes...

After the extremes of a summer and winter in just 10 days, the Easter weekend looks set to return to the decidedly average conditions that characterise an Irish spring.

Met Éireann forecaster Vincent O’Shea reports the immediate outlook is for pleasant weather, without reaching the balmy heights of last week.

“Between now and Monday, in a word, it will be pleasant. It’s certainly not all good news but it’s not going to be bad by any means,” he said.