This picture tells you pretty much everything about the weather in Thurles today

26 July: a fine summer’s day.

Updated 14.35

YOU KNOW THINGS are bad when the weather radar looks like this and Met Eireann are predicting 25-30mm of rainfall today.

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Unfortunately it’s All-Ireland hurling quarter-final day with Dublin taking on Waterford, and Galway playing Cork, in Semple Stadium.

A greasy auld day, to use hurling parlance. This picture of Lauren Hammett, snapped by Morgan Treacy, tells you pretty much everything you need to know:

Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO

These fans came dressed for the occasion, thankfully:

Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO

A Wexford jersey in front of 80,000 fans in Croke Park?! It can only be Ed Sheeran

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