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

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. Source: Skerries Sea Tours

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

Sandymount in Dublin Source: @marymcgui

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

Lacken in Wicklow at 7am Source: @jojowalsh

Enniscorthy this morning Source: @Kreuzieirl

The Phoenix Park Source: Eoin O'Neill

By the sea

Tramore in Waterford Source: Kevin O'Sullivan

Oyster Haven in Cork Source: Donna (via email)

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

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

Source: Mike Clinton

Bray seafront Source: David Wilkins

The view from Bray Head Source: David Wilkins

Tramore in Waterford again Source: Kevin O'Sullivan

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

The Strand at Youghal Source: Eoin Flanagan

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On the road 

Waterford Bridge Source: Donna (via email)

Dublin city

The Four Courts in Dublin city Source: Alan Roche

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

St Patrick's Cathedral Source: @TartanWeegie

Dublin city centre Source: @paulbyrne92

Dublin Bay from the Clontarf Road Source: @kennedyirl

The great outdoors

St Catherine's Park in Leixlip Source: Emer McCormack

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

Birds eating in the sunshine Source: Laura O'M

The sunset last night

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

Dún Laoghaire pier Source: @marymcgui

The sunset over Dublin Bay last night Source: @garethoconnor

Howth in Dublin Source: @NiamhPitts

Sunset at Clogher in Kerry Source: Florian Walsh

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

Originally published 11.52am

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