LOOK OUTSIDE YOUR window there. What time of the year would you say it was, just going by the weather? January, February, maybe April at a push. Certainly not June, right?

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This is the June Bank Holiday, but we’re certainly not seeing any sort of June-like weather, with gale force winds and even more rain forecast for tonight.

This isn’t summer as the rest of the world knows it. It’s Irish summer. Now it has a proper name, thanks to 2fm breakfast presenter Keith Walsh:

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Junuary. So apt, we might cry.

People are asking the important questions

Are you though? ARE YOU? *bursts into tears*

A few are telling of their dashed hopes

Look at those sad little deckchairs:

Look at this windswept beach:

Some have dared to utter the C word

People are bringing the winter coats out of storage

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The heating is on

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People are LIGHTING BLOODY FIRES

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And everyone is retweeting this in solidarity

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