Making hay while the sun shines!

From ice-cream to pedicures, bikes to campsites, trade is really heating up for some. Here, we meet the people who are shaking their sunny-makers...

WE’RE running out of water, sweltering at our desks and sorry we wasted money on foreign holidays. Some of us are even — whisper it — hoping for an oul’ drop of rain to fall on our bleached and wilting gardens. But plenty of businesses in Ireland are booming thanks to the heatwave and they’re in no hurry for a return to cloudy skies. We speak to the people who bring you pedicures, ice-cream, sunglasses, charcoal and more...