{"id":508038,"date":"2026-06-19T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508038\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:27:12","slug":"ireland-weather-warm-dry-weekend-in-store-with-next-week-promising-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508038\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland weather: Warm, dry weekend in store with next week promising \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A warm weekend is in store <\/a>across the country with temperatures gradually rising into next week. <\/p>\n

Saturday and Sunday <\/a>are promised to be dry and sunny nearly everywhere, save for a few showers in the northwest, and it will feel warm and pleasant in the sunshine with temperatures of up to 23 degrees.<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann forecaster Ail\u00eds Hankinson said this weekend marks the beginning of a \u201cwarming trend<\/a>\u201d with high pressure building from the southeast bringing drier weather and sunshine. <\/p>\n

There is a possibility of some thunderstorms on Monday, but they should clear away, giving rise to a warm and sunny second half of the week. <\/p>\n

Monday will have temperatures of between 20 and 25 degrees, <\/a>with the warmest weather in the east and southeast, a pattern which will remain for the rest of the week. <\/p>\n

\u201cHigh pressure is building us from the southeast bringing drier weather and sunshine,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is quite a bit of uncertainty in the details, but, towards the end of next week, we will see temperatures up to the mid- or high 20s in places, though there is likely to be some showers associated with the warm weather.\u201d <\/p>\n

It should be dry for the big concerts over the weekend<\/a>. Metal behemoths Metallica are playing separate sets on Friday and Sunday night in the Aviva Stadium <\/a>as part of their M72 world tour. <\/p>\n

The band and its foundation, All Within My Hands, is encouraging its Irish fans to give blood over the weekend. <\/p>\n

Irish Blood Transfusion Service director Sharon Ryan described it as a \u201cfantastic and unique way for us to get the message to people about how important it is to give blood\u201d.<\/p>\n

The other big concerts over the weekend are Kodaline at Malahide Castle on Saturday night <\/a>and Olivia Dean brings her Art of Loving Live tour to Dublin\u2019s Marlay Park on Sunday evening<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The big sporting event of the weekend is the Leinster v Bulls BKT United Rugby Championship final in Croke Park this evening at 7.30pm.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Leinster will hope to make up for the disappointment of being routed in the Champions Cup Final by Bordeaux last month. <\/p>\n

The big GAA games of the weekend are the hurling quarter-finals between Clare and Dublin in FBD Semple Stadium on Saturday, followed by Cork v Offaly at the same venue on Sunday. <\/p>\n

In football, the last round of qualifiers, Kerry v Armagh in Fitzgerald Stadium and Mayo v Meath in MacHale Park, will take place on Saturday. <\/p>\n

On Sunday, it will be a last chance for Dublin, <\/a>who take on Donegal in Croke Park, while Monaghan play Westmeath in Clones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A warm weekend is in store across the country with temperatures gradually rising into next week. Saturday and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46,615,61,60,1191,43,15950],"class_list":["post-508038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-weather-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508038","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=508038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}