Reaction from Dubliners and visitors to the city to the bleak weather on midsummer's day.
Unseasonably cold and inclement weather on the longest day of the year. Beaches and parks are deserted, and it was even too much for some hardy tourists who had ventured out to Sandymount Strand.
We're frozen!
Cool temperatures, cloudy skies and scattered showers were forecast by the Met Éireann, who advised anyone venturing outside to dress warmly and to bring a raincoat and an umbrella. There is no sign that the weather is to improve.
One man is forthright about the bleak nature of the day,
It’s not summer at all. It’s misery.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 21 June 1980. The reporter is Colm Connolly.
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