Last week, I attended Bord Bia’s Horticulture Industry Day where Bord Bia presented statistics on the 2019 1) Fresh produce retail market , 2) Fresh produce food service market and…
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A couple of weeks ago, I moderated a Climate Action event in Castleknock attended by over 200 secondary school students. I realised as I spoke there that I have been...
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Overall 2019 has been a very good growing season with a good balance of sun, rain and heat. Despite this, there is an unsettled feeling among those of us working…
As the prorogation of parliament in Westminster yesterday increases the prospect of a no-deal Brexit, it was interesting last Sunday to hear a retail expert on RTE Radio 1’s This…
As I write, the 19th stage of the Tour de France has been halted due to a dramatic hailstorm. This in a week, when the highest maximum temperature records for…
Over the past few weeks and during the next month or so, my work and travels have been connecting my personal and professional interests. At the beginning of the month…
I grabbed a mug of tea a few minutes ago, logged on to the RTE and BBC websites to catch up and felt compelled to stop everything and begin to…
The growing threats of Climate Change and biodiversity loss depress me but during March, I’ve been lifted by the energy and fight shown by young campaigners in Ireland and across…
This afternoon 20.3c was recorded at Trawsgoed, Ceredigion, Wales making it the warmest ever February and winters day in the UK, exceeding the previous record of 19.7c set in Greenwich,…
It has been a busy start to 2019. In my role as Coordinator of the Horticulture Industry Forum (HIF), we organised a seminar on January 16th which focused on the…
Weather Forecast
10/04/20 8:55
Spells of warm hazy sunshine today but some potentially heavy showers could form locally in the afternoon and patchy rain and drizzle could affect some Atlantic coasts. Light variable breezes. Highs 14c – 21c. Cloudy overnight patches of rain and drizzle about. Lows 6c – 10c. Cloudy with patchy light rain or drizzle about at first on Saturday morning but slowly turning dry and brighter as the day goes on. However, some patchy rain and drizzle will develop in the northwest later in the day. Cooler northeasterly breezes. Highs 10c – 15c. Looking showery on Easter Sunday with some prolonged showers about but sunny intervals too, mainly in northern counties. Light westerly breezes. Highs 12c – 17c. Generally cooler on Eater Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday but dry and sunny too. Risk of frost at night.
