WE ASKED, YOU answered.

Temperatures today are going to be so high that Met Éireann has officially issued a weather warning.

Given that it’s taken so long for summer to finally get here, we asked readers to send in their photos of the sunshine around the country, and boy did you guys deliver. You lot seem to have been spending your time on beaches, eating ice-cream and just spending time outside drinking it all in, judging by your photos.

Here are some of the best shots we received on email, Twitter and Facebook which make Ireland look like an entirely different country in the sunshine.  Good work, everyone.

Early morning sunshine

Skerries Sea Tours Eoin Grimes of Skerries Sea Tours sent us this pic taken at 5am today on the way to Lambay Island. Best job in the world, he wrote. Skerries Sea Tours

Liams Taxi Slane in Meath at 7 o'clock this morning Liams Taxi

@marymcgui Sandymount in Dublin @marymcgui

@Ms_F_Tutu It's Cork - or Costa Del Cork, as @Ms_F_Tutu put it - at 6.30am today. @Ms_F_Tutu

@jojowalsh Lacken in Wicklow at 7am @jojowalsh

@Kreuzieirl Enniscorthy this morning @Kreuzieirl

Eoin O'Neill The Phoenix Park Eoin O'Neill

By the sea

Kevin O'Sullivan Tramore in Waterford Kevin O'Sullivan

Donna (via email) Oyster Haven in Cork Donna (via email)

Jill O'Herlihy The view right beside Dún Laoghaire pier Jill O'Herlihy

David O'Mahony A beach near Kinsale in Cork David O'Mahony

Mike Clinton Mike Clinton

David Wilkins Bray seafront David Wilkins

David Wilkins The view from Bray Head David Wilkins

Kevin O'Sullivan Tramore in Waterford again Kevin O'Sullivan

Karl Larkin Ireland's Eye off the coast of north county Dublin Karl Larkin

Eoin Flanagan The Strand at Youghal Eoin Flanagan

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On the road 

Donna (via email) Waterford Bridge Donna (via email)

Dublin city

Alan Roche The Four Courts in Dublin city Alan Roche

David Lynch People watch a cricket match at Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday evening David Lynch

@TartanWeegie St Patrick's Cathedral @TartanWeegie

@paulbyrne92 Dublin city centre @paulbyrne92

@kennedyirl Dublin Bay from the Clontarf Road @kennedyirl

The great outdoors

Emer McCormack St Catherine's Park in Leixlip Emer McCormack

Emer McCormack Another view of St Catherine's Park in Leixlip Emer McCormack

Laura O'M Birds eating in the sunshine Laura O'M

The sunset last night

Alan Barry Sunset at Hollyhill in Cork city last night Alan Barry

@marymcgui Dún Laoghaire pier @marymcgui

@garethoconnor The sunset over Dublin Bay last night @garethoconnor

@NiamhPitts Howth in Dublin @NiamhPitts

Florian Walsh Sunset at Clogher in Kerry Florian Walsh

Thanks so much to everyone who sent in pics. You’re all great. 

Originally published 11.52am

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