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Dublin Summer {The best Irish summer in 18 years}

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Summer 2013 was the nicest summer in Ireland in 18 year.  18 years!  It was newsworthy, people were sweltering in the heat, swimming in the sea and the canals and causing traffic jams on the roads to the beaches.  People were reminiscing about their memories from the Summer of '95, and tweeting about how they would tell their future grandkids about the summer of 2013.   You may wonder what an Irish Summer so memorable is like.  Well, we're talking about warm weather - a few consecutive weeks in the upper 60's, a few days in the low 70's and maybe 1 day around 75.  And just over 2 full weeks without rain, not once.  If you had experienced Summer 2012, as we did (or presumably any other summer between 95' and '13), you would know this was nothing short of a miracle. For perspective, 23°C = 73°F To be fair, the days around these really warm days were also pretty nice, we saw a lot of sun in Ireland over the summer and it was a complet...