WHETHER YOU WERE at a sports event, festival or just lazing in the back garden, we’d love you to cheer us up on this Monday in the office with your pics of what you got up to in the fine weather of this past weekend.
This little selection from our friends at INPHO, PA Images and Photocall Ireland will give you a taster of how Ireland basked in the sunshine in style…
Weekend warmer
Seven-year-old Chloe Murphy cools her feet in the River Blackwater in Co Wexford. Image: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall IrelandWeekend warmer
People enjoying the band 'Fibbs' at the Dublin City Soul Fesitval in Merrion Square Park, Dublin. Image: Mark Stedman/Photocall IrelandWeekend warmer
First Communion girls scatter flower petals in front of a priest carrying the Eucharist during the 99th annual Corpus Christi religious procession in Blackwater, Co Wexford. Image: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall IrelandWeekend warmer
Shane Cox and 'Charlie' enjoy the Dublin City Soul Fesitval today in Merrion Square Park, Dublin. Image: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland.Weekend warmer
Today FM DJ Ian Dempsey gets his hiking boots on with models Ciara Kelly and Joanne McKiernan at the launch of a charity trek on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in aid of The Alzheimer Society of Ireland and Croí, the heart and stroke charity. Image:Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland.Weekend warmer
Franzi Blum from Germany blows bubbles in Dublin city centre. Image: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland.Weekend warmer
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, Pat Doherty, Toireasa Ferris and Mary Lou McDonald have an ice-cream break at the party's Ard Fheis at the INEC, Killarney on Saturday. Image: Laura Hutton/Photocall IrelandWeekend warmer
Ireland footballer James McClean squints in the sun at the friendly against Bosnia & Herzegovina in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin on Saturday. Image: Niall Carson/PA WireWeekend warmer
The heat was on for Leinster's Brian O'Driscoll (seen here with Ospreys player Dan Bigger) during the RaboDirect PRO12 Final at the RDS, Dublin. Image: Niall Carson/PA WireWeekend warmer
A fan shelters from the sun at the Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Quarter-Final at Semple Stadium, Thurles yesterday between Tipperary and Limerick. Image: INPHO/James CrombieWeekend warmer
Tipperary's Michael Cahill and Limerick's Seán Tobin at the Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Quarter-Final in Semple Stadium, Thurles, Co Tipperary yesterday. Image: INPHO/James CrombieWeekend warmer
Leinster fan Seán Tester at the RDS Dublin on Saturday. Image: INPHO/Ryan ByrneWeekend warmer
Antrim players feel the heat during the parade before the start of the Ulster GAA Football Senior Championship Quarter-Final in Clones, Co Monaghan. Image: INPHO/Andrew Paton/Presseye.comWeekend warmer
Kerry's Paul Galvin and Tipperary's Brian Fox in a face-off at the Munster GAA Football Senior Championship Quarter-Final in Semple Stadium in Thurles, Co Tipperary. Image: INPHO/James Crombie.Weekend warmer
Glamour in the sun at the Curragh Racecourse in Co Kildare yesterday. Image: INPHO/Lorraine O'SullivanWeekend warmer
Martin Harley, winning jockey in the Etihad Airways Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh racecourse, Co Kildare, with his mount Samitar and trainer Mick Channon. Image: INPHO/Lorraine O'SullivanWeekend cooler
The not-so-pleasing aspect to the fine weather antics: Reader John Sherlock noted the rubbish scattered around Sandymount Strand yesterday - and around an overflowing bin at the entrance to Sean Moore Park. Image: John Sherlock.
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