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Cooling off at the Forty Foot in Dublin during the heatwave last week. It was a good news story. Finally. Some fine weather, that’s all it was — just a good news story. Until it wasn’t. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

THERE was something about July’s extreme heat that didn’t feel quite right. Met Éireann put out a weather warning, not the usual one we’re used to — the howling winds and torrential rain — but because it was going to reach 30C-plus in Roscommon.

I don’t remember ever hearing a weather warning in the summer before. My mum said she doesn’t remember a summer where it was as hot.