{"id":552167,"date":"2026-07-16T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552167\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:50:08","slug":"well-miss-the-sun-when-ireland-reverts-to-type-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552167\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll miss the sun when Ireland reverts to type \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 What is wrong with some Irish people? I\u2019m specifically referring to the ones who complain about this glorious weather. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This is Ireland. We usually get 2.5 days of sunshine in the summer. It\u2019s not like the rest of Europe, some of which is sweltering in heat of up to 40 degrees. Our UK friends find themselves tolerating temperatures about 10 degrees higher than in Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The warm weather will be gone soon, so relax, enjoy the sun on your skin and the balmy evening breezes. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CATHERINE PORTER,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mornington,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Meath.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 What is wrong with some Irish people? I\u2019m specifically referring to the ones who complain about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-552167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552167","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=552167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}