You won’t hear Google complain about the Irish weather. Ireland’s wet damp climate is a key reason Google have settled their major headquarters outside the U.S. there.

Ireland is set for a scorching summer as thousands come home for The Gathering, according to a world renowned weather expert.

Ireland’s weather service has poured cold water on the hopes of a summer scorcher this year.

This past weekend marked the 174th anniversary of The Night of the Big Wind, the worst storm in Irish history. Here’s a rundown of the worst storms to hit Ireland through the centuries.

Two friends died from the cold in an apartment in Dublin’s north inner city. John Glennon (67) and Debbie McEvoy (63) died from hypothermia according to a post-mortem examination.

Temperatures are plummeting across Ireland as heavy snow brings the country to a halt.

Parts of Ireland endured the dullest January in almost half a century, according to the national Irish weather service Met Eireann.

Ireland is in the grip of an arctic storm with snow causing havoc across the country.

Met Eireann, Ireland’s national meteorological service, has warned of what it is predicting to be some of the most severe weather Ireland has had so far this year.

St Patrick’s Day is set to become St P-Arctic’s Day with weather forecasters predicting a white national holiday for Ireland.

Ireland has gone green for St Patrick’s Day – and the country has been painted white as snow fell and the cold snap deepened.

Horrendous weather has brought parts of Ireland to a standstill again – with blizzards, torrential rain and gusting winds forecast for the weekend.

Farmers in Ulster fear their flocks are dead and their livelihoods destroyed after more severe weather and blizzard conditions.

Ireland is set for a white Easter after the coldest March for decades.

When Met Eireann publishes its findings on April 2 show that March will likely be the coldest or at least one of the coldest months on record.

In Ireland spring officially begins on February 1st, St. Brigid’s Day, but so far this year the island has experience record low temperatures continuing into April.

A European weather forecasting service has warned that a tornado could hit Ireland on Monday night.

A County Antrim farmer has revealed how a ewe trapped under a massive snow drift for three weeks has been left traumatised by the experience.

Retail sales in Ireland were hit by the unusually cold weather in March, the introduction of the local property tax and industrial relations uncertainty.

Northern and Western parts of Ireland experienced the coldest April in 24 years, new figures show, as the country’s cold snap continues.

Ireland is set for a Bank Holiday heat wave – with the prospects of a good summer improving by the day.

While many would say it rains quite a lot in Ireland now, new evidence has found that the Emerald Isle had to endure 20 years of non-stop rain back in 2345  BC - just around the time of Noah's Biblical flood.