Weather forecast

On Saturday, most areas will be dry, with warm sunny periods, although Met Éireann has said high cloud through the day will make the sunshine a little hazy at times.

Thickening cloud from the southwest may bring a little patchy rain to Munster coasts by evening time.

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Highest temperatures will range 16°C to 20°C.

Met Éireann said breezes will mainly be from a southeast direction and moderate in strength, but increasing fresh to strong at times along the southwest coast.

In the news

  • Farmers will also be able to use dribble bars and shallow injection equipment, along with trailing shoes, to spread 50% of all slurry by 2030 under Government climate targets.
  • A man was convicted and fined €1,000 at Nenagh District Court last week for cutting and removing hedgerows during the bird nesting season.
  • In order to draw down the €100m Brexit beef fund, farmers will have to be a member of an environmental scheme or be a member of a quality assurance (QA) scheme.
  • The final 162t of skimmed milk powder (SMP) has been cleared from intervention stocks.
  • Calls were made on Friday at the Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) for the energy crops grant to be restored.

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