West beats East in last month’s sunshine stakes

April set records for dry weather but warnings of showers and cold temperatures for the rest of May

Lots of sunshine, high temperatures, and light winds — has the summer already come and gone? We will have to wait and see, following what was the sunniest and driest April on record for many parts of the country.

Most areas basked in glorious weather during the month, according to the latest figures from Met Éireann, but the weather was also very mixed. While Cork had the driest April in more than 50 years, some parts of the country experienced higher than average rainfall.