A spring in our step outdoors
High pressure to bring warm weather & sun
SPRING will have well and truly sprung over the weekend as temperatures are set to creep up into the low teens.
It will also be time to dust of the shades as the bout of high pressure will bring plenty of wall-to-wall sunshine.
There will be a dry start to the weekend with a mix of cloud and some isolated patchy and light showers but amounts will be small.
A Met Eireann spokesperson said: “The best of the sunshine will be in the northwest. Highest temperatures of 10C to 13C in light southerly or variable breezes.
“Cool at night with a risk of frost and fog as winds ease. Saturday night will bring patchy cloud and clear spells with some showers.
“Temperature lows will range from freezing to 5C, producing slight frost in some parts. Winds will be light variable or near calm allowing mist and fog patches to form, with fog becoming dense in places towards dawn.”
On Sunday the mist and fog may be slow to clear in the morning in the near calm conditions, but sunny spells will break through in most places by the afternoon. It will be dry with highs of 10C to 12C with light easterly breezes developing.
At night there it will be dry with clear spells.
Mist patches will return with a few pockets of dense fog occurring towards dawn. Lows of 1C to 4C in light easterly breezes.
And it looks like Monday will be more of the same with mist and fog clearing through the morning to leave another dry day with variable cloud and some sunshine. Temperatures will vary from 8C to 11C in light or moderate easterly breezes. Monday night will stay mainly dry with clear spells and patchy
frost and fog. However, temperatures will drop to between 1C to 4C.
A PAEDO who raped his partner’s six-month old niece in a “violent and degrading sexual assault” has been jailed for 16 years yesterday.
The Tipperary man in his late 50s recorded himself abusing the baby and also secretly recorded four other girls when they used the bathroom.
The father of five, cannot be named to protect the identities of the victims.
Mr Justice Alexander Owens told the Central Criminal Court the man’s offending over seven months in 2019 involved “acting out violent fantasies of having sex with very young children” which was “highly exploitative”.
Previously the court heard an anonymous envelope was delivered to a garda station in August 2019, which contained a memory card and a handwritten note.
The card contained a clip of an infant being sexually abused by the accused man and asked gardai to arrest “this monster”. Last year he admitted two counts of oral rape, one of attempted oral rape and five counts of sexual assault of the tot.
He also pleaded guilty to five counts of production of child pornography of the baby and the four older children. He further pleaded guilty to four counts of possession of child pornography.
One mother said she could not believe the man had done “such horrific things” to her daughters and was grateful they are young enough to move on.
Another told the court: “In my worst nightmare I could not have imagined it.”
Defence counsel Colman Cody said his client became addicted to cocaine and it had become a destabilising factor.
Mr Justice Owens said he did not accept drug-taking was a mitigating factor. He said the man’s general character was “indifferent” and he appeared to have little insight or understanding of the impact of his crimes on his victims.