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IRELAND will be treated to “good sunny spells” and temperatures will take a 16C switch this afternoon after plunging to a chilly 4C last night.
However, it’s not all sunshine on the cards, with showers of rain and heavy wind set to beat down on the country just as thousands gear up to attend Kaleidoscope and Longitude Festival’s this weekend.
Today will sit at between 14C to 20C as temperatures attempt to climb back up from that cooler overnight turn.
There will be a mix sunshine and scattered showers today with Met Eireann revealing “heavy” rain is set to fall over the northern half of the country.
Thunderstorms are expected there today too as showers spread in from the west.
Met Eireann said: “Today will bring a mix of sunshine and scattered showers, which will spread from the west through the morning and afternoon.
“Some of the showers will be heavy, especially over the northern half of the country, with the chance of few scattered thunderstorms there too.
“A clearance to mainly dry sunny weather will extend eastwards through the afternoon and evening, with just a few lingering isolated showers.
“Highest temperatures of 14C in the northwest to 20C in the east and south in light to moderate westerly breezes.”
Alan O’Reilly, from Carlow Weather, told us there is some more sunshine expected before a weekend turn.
He told The Irish Sun: “It’s a lot cooler but we will have some good sunny spells today and tomorrow, Thursday, but some scattered showers as well.”
However he warned: “Then the wind, the cloud and some more rain moves back in from the north west on Friday and the weekend is looking cloudier, breezy and showery.”
This weekend is a busy one across the country with Longitude happening in Marlay Park in Dublin and Kaleidoscope Festival getting underway in Blessington in Wicklow.
And while Alan O’Reilly said it’s still a little bit early to pinpoint an exact weather forecast, what he can say at the moment is not good news.
He told The Irish Sun: “Be prepared for some rain but it won’t be a washout weekend.
“But it certainly will be cloudy and damp with some some falls of rain.
“It will also be quite breezy so you might want to bring a few extra pegs for your tent.”
Met Eireann have estimated temperatures for the weekend will range from the high teens to low 20s, even with that wet weather.
Friday temperatures will sit between 14C to 19C during the day, while overnight temperatures will stay “mild and humid” dropping to just 13C to 17C.
On Saturday temperatures could soar to 22C Met Eireann have promised before coming down to between 10C and 12C overnight.
Sunday will be slightly cooler, with temperatures sitting around 20C.
And Alan O’Reilly also weighed in on sightings of funnel clouds across Ireland yesterday before the weather turns a little stormy today.
These clouds were spotted along the west coast in places such as Galway.
He explained these clouds, often recognised as the start of a tornado, are a rotating, cone-shaped column of air extending from the bottom of a cloud.
When these reach the ground they turn into tornados, but Alan explained it is unlikely here.
He said: “When they come down and touch the ground then they become a tornado.
“But a lot of funnel clouds never reach the ground and are like the ones that were spotted in Galway yesterday.”
He added: “Tornadoes are very rare in Ireland and I mean we do get them but they’re very rare in Ireland.”
A ‘ONE in a million’ former jockey has died aged 43 after being kicked in the head by a horse.
Heartbroken friends said they had ‘lost their little girl’ as they came to terms with the shock passing of Australian Peta Tait.
Tait rode 48 winners between 1998 and 2019 and had been working as a stable lass and work rider since giving up race-riding.
She was going about her normal business for trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young when struck in the head at Cranbourne Training Centre in south-east Melbourne earlier this week.
Paramedics rushed to the scene and performed CPR but she could not be saved.
The trainers said in a statement: “Peta was an incredible person who was dedicated to her role and will leave a longstanding legacy. We are heartbroken by her loss.”
Jockey Daniel Moor wrote on X: “It’s difficult to find the words to describe a one in a million person, but that’s exactly who Peta was.
“So dedicated to her job and always so helpful. Constantly putting others before herself. She will be very sadly missed.”
Police are investigating the circumstances around the incident – although it was believed to be a ‘tragic accident’.
Tait rode her first ever winner for trainer Reg Manning aged 16 and he said: “It was just a freak accident.
“It was not as if she did anything wrong, or it was a bad horse, it just kicked out for whatever reason.
“I couldn’t have kids, but I have got three girls that all call me ‘Dad’ from different families.
“We helped all of them growing up and Peta was no different – we were very close.
“Fellow trainers Ian and Jan Hutchins were like family to her as well. She learnt a lot from them.
“They treated her very well, and they will be just as sad as I am that we have lost our little girl.”
Racing Victoria chief executive Aaron Morrison said: “This terrible accident serves as an untimely reminder of the thousands of unsung heroes working in stables each day to provide the best possible care to our racehorses.
“Like all within our industry, Peta loved horses and she forged a career working with them, helping numerous trainers prepare their horses as a trackwork rider or strapping them on race day.
“Peta made a valuable contribution to Victorian racing over more than 25 years and her sudden passing will be felt by many, particularly in Cranbourne where she was based.”
GROUNDBREAKING documentary series Up will be back for its next chapter – 70 Up – after its creator Michael Apted died in 2021.
The films followed the lives of a group of average British people every seven years since 1964 and so the director became incredibly close to the contributors.
There were therefore question marks over whether the ITV series would continue without him.
But producers began work on the next run this week to continue his life’s work and honour his legacy, with the instalment likely to air in 2026.
Before he died, Michael had shared hopes he’d be able to make 84 Up – when he would have been 99.
But he later acknowledged that might not be possible due to his health.
In one of his final interviews, he suggested it could possibly continue with someone else at the helm, such as his longtime producer, Claire Lewis.
The Up series of documentary films followed the lives of ten boys and four girls in England, beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old and was directed by Paul Almond.
The first film was titled Seven Up!, with later films adjusting the number in the title to match the age of the subjects at the time of filming.
Michael took up the reins for 1970’s Seven plus Seven.
The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, on the assumption that each child’s social class would determine their future.
It’s painted a fascinating picture since, with some participants criticising the series, and Apted, when they chose to quit the process.
The documentary has had nine episodes—one every seven years.
ITV has aired every series except 42 Up in 1998, which aired on BBC One.
In 1991, 28 Up was chosen for Roger Ebert’s ten greatest films of all time.
But it has also attracted criticism for some editorial choices, for example just four of the 20 participants are female.
A FLAT-CHESTED body positivity influencer says she’s been “cancelled” for getting a boob job – but insists she “loves” her new body.
Clara Dao, 26, garnered almost eight million followers on social media making content about being flat-chested for six years but, three months ago, in March 2025, she got a £2,500 boob job.
Clara went from a bra size 32AA to a 32C and is “loving” her new chest but says many of her followers “hate” her choice, calling her a “hypocrite”.
But, despite the backlash, Clara insists she doesn’t regret undergoing the procedure – as it’s given her a new, “feminine” kind of confidence.
Clara, originally from Hanoi but currently living in Danang, Vietnam, said: “I fully expected I would be cancelled once I announced my boob job.
“I’ve lost a lot of followers – around 500,000 across all my platforms.
“Losing followers doesn’t come as a shock.
“I built my following based on that one single message of loving your natural body, your flat chest especially.
“A big part of my following followed me for that message.”
Size XS Clara says she was taunted and “skinny-shamed” through college in Canada for her flat chest.
She bought a weight-gain supplements and syrups off Instagram in a bid to put on pounds and even stuck her ideal Kardashian body on her mirror to manifest it.
In February 2019, she started uploading YouTube videos documenting her journey to self-acceptance.
She said: “I lived and breathed the message of body positivity. I created content about it every day, day in, day out.”
But six years of making content later, she said her perception changed.
Clara said: “I felt boxed into that content.
“People just knew me as ‘the flat-chested girl’.
“As long as I had my flat chest I could fall back on it and increase my subscribers and things would just be the same.
“Creatively I feel boxed in, I don’t feel passionate about the content I did anymore. I don’t want that option anymore.
“I got the surgery because I was bored. I wanted to get out of the trap of making content about my flat chest.
“I had a lot of self-love and body positivity before and I have a lot of self-love now.”
Clara underwent the two-hour surgery on March 5 at a clinic in Danang, Vietnam, where she had moved with her boyfriend at the time from Canada just a week before.
She said: “It was pretty impulsive. I had the idea at the beginning of February and had the surgery exactly a month later.
“I had the surgery in Vietnam – it’s quite different from having the surgery in the UK or America, you could have the surgery the next day if you want.
“With the surgery itself, I had slight complications.
“The wound on my left side didn’t close for two, three weeks so it took a bit longer to heal, but nothing major. The service here is very good. They checked the wound every day.
“It really hurt for the first three days. I’d need help getting up and down from the bed and I couldn’t do certain movements with my arms.
“But after a month you get back basically to normal.”
Now it just feels like it’s part of me
Clara Dao
Clara says she’s “very impulsive”, but doesn’t regret the decision at all.
She said: “I’m very happy with the results. Now it just feels like it’s part of me.
“In the first month your skin feels very stretched out, tight and heavy. But after three months it feels normal, it’s getting softer and softer.
Clara – who is moving to LA for a “brand new start” – said: “The reaction to the surgery from my immediate circle is very positive, my friends and family know I did it because I wanted a change.
“My family has always encouraged me to get the surgery since I was 17 – since before I started making the content.
“There’s a cultural difference. In Asia, people are a lot more image focused.
“They want you to show the best version of yourself, no flaws, especially online.
“When I first started social media and showed my flat chest, showed my imperfections, belly rolls, acne, skin texture, my family was against that for a very long time. But I never really listened to them.”
Clara says the backlash has been “pretty brutal”.
She said: “Before, when I did flat chest content, most of the hate came from guys, saying you look like a guy, you look ugly, you’re like a piece of wood.
“Now my hate comes from women, saying you’re a hypocrite, you’re so fake.
“A lot of people won’t understand. I accept that I won’t be understood by most people, especially my fans.
“The first video I made was about doing what you love. That’s the deeper message I want to spread with my content.
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