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Cillian Sherlock

Weather warnings for whole island of Ireland as new record temperature possible

Eamon McCormack O’Connell going for a morning swim in Clontarf, Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA) - (PA Wire)

The entire island of Ireland will be under weather warnings, as forecasters said a record temperature could be “challenged”.

The Republic of Ireland has been under a status yellow high temperature warning since midday on Tuesday, as a plume of extremely hot air that brought temperatures in excess of 40C to Europe moved towards the island.

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