{"id":468512,"date":"2026-05-26T22:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:10:14","slug":"its-like-costa-del-raheny-beachgoers-in-dollymount-make-hay-while-the-sun-shines-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468512\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s like Costa del Raheny\u2019: Beachgoers in Dollymount make hay while the sun shines \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

While temperatures<\/a> have reached almost 30 degrees in parts of the country<\/a> on Tuesday, many Dubliners<\/a> flocked to the beach to make the most of the sunny weather.<\/p>\n

Cody Hand took the day off from her work as a customer service agent when she heard the news of good weather to come. Her boyfriend, Brad Mulholland, finished up earlier in the day working in a butchers which is \u201cbusy for the barbecue season\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-olds decided to make the most of the sun because \u201cwe don\u2019t get enough of it\u201d and the pair headed down to Dollymount Strand.<\/p>\n

Mort Bogman hadn\u2019t planned to head to the beach, but after his tattoo apprenticeship was cancelled for the day, he decided to go \u201cwhere the wind blows\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"MortMort Bogman from Glasnevin on Dollymount Strand. Photograph: Bryan O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

While more warmer days would be welcome, Bogman said he\u2019d \u201cdefinitely be sleeping worse\u201d if hotter temperatures continued throughout the summer.<\/p>\n

Matt Toth was sitting down with his dog after a walk along the beach. He said the weather right now in Dublin was reminiscent of when he lived in Spain, working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like Costa del Raheny,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

Toth isn\u2019t that far off the mark either \u2013 the temperature in Barcelona ranged from 22 to 25 degrees on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0\u2018Extreme event\u2019: Here is what\u2019s causing record-breaking temperatures in Ireland and EuropeOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Back home, Met \u00c9ireann issued a status yellow high temperature warning on Tuesday for Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Galway, Kilkenny, Laois and Offaly.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Shannon Airport became the first place in Ireland to record a temperature of more than 30 degrees<\/a> in May, beating the record for the hottest May temperature set in Co Carlow earlier in the same day at 29.7 degrees. Those highs beat Monday\u2019s previous record of 28.6 degrees recorded at Shannon Airport, breaking the long-standing record of 28.4 degrees recorded in Kerry in 1997.<\/p>\n

While walking his dog and taking in the view, Toth met Jurate Ferreira who returned to the beach to find a toy her daughter had lost the previous day.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0High temperature record for May broken twice in same dayOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Luckily enough, she found it and stayed for a couple of hours to spend her time sunbathing, before picking her daughter up from school. <\/p>\n

Disagreeing with Toth, Ferreira, originally from Brazil, hopes the nice weather stays for as long as it can. <\/p>\n

Toth remarked that he would move away from Ireland if the warm weather stayed for too long.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d go northern, to Norway or Finland. No, it\u2019s not for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"MattMatt Toth from Hungary and Jurate Ferreira from Brazil. Photograph: Bryan O\u2019Brien <\/p>\n

Lisa Keane, like Ferreira, hopes for the weather to stay hot but knows that rain and drizzle may soon return.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake the most of the weather while it\u2019s here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Keane, a nurse in St James\u2019 hospital, brought her daughter, Aria, to the beach after she completed one of her summer exams. The pair \u201clove a picnic\u201d and set up for a bit of lunch before heading home so Aria can prepare for her next exam. <\/p>\n

\" Lisa Keane and her daughter Aria Keane enjoying the sunny weather on Dollymount Strand. Photo: Bryan O\u2019Brien <\/p>\n

Unfortunately for those with hopes for the weather to stay, patches of drizzle are expected to end this sunny spell on Thursday, with a long weekend of unsettled conditions to follow.<\/p>\n

\"YvonneYvonne Martin (left) and her daughter Sara Codrea from Killester. Photograph: Bryan O\u2019Brien <\/p>\n

Sara Codrea, a social care student who recently finished her exams, pointed to a theory from her studies that very high temperatures can actually make people more aggressive, but her mother, Yvonne Martin, emphasised that Ireland hasn\u2019t reached \u201cextreme\u201d just yet and they both laughed it off.<\/p>\n

Compared to her experience as a nurse in an Australian hospital without air conditioning in the 1990s, Martin said she loves the Irish weather and won\u2019t miss the heat too much.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to look out at the blue sky and say \u2018oh God, not another\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have a lovely climate,\u201d she said, while Codrea, on the other hand, thinks a few degrees higher would be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While temperatures have reached almost 30 degrees in parts of the country on Tuesday, many Dubliners flocked to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,61,60,1191,43,18335,15950],"class_list":["post-468512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-weather-events","tag-weather-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}