Is our love affair with sun holidays about to cool?

Will extreme heat brought on by climate change turn Irish holidaymakers off their two weeks in the sun? Cianan Brennan reports

People cool off in a fountain in Seville, as a heatwave hits Spain. Picture: Cristina Quicler / AFP)

As Ireland’s most recent heatwave is replaced by an autumnal chill in the air, spare a thought for our European cousins, for whom far-more-outlandish temperatures have become a predictable annual occurrence.

Last year, Greece, in particular the island of Rhodes, was decimated by surging temperatures and rampant wildfires.