A walker (just visible as a dot on the skyline) descending the snow-covered summit of Binn an tSaighdiúra today. Winter has officially ended in Ireland since the beginning of March – and it has been a very mild and wet winter – but a drop in temperature over the weekend resulted in some snow and hail showers in Connemara. It won’t last – much of the snow visible in the morning had melted by the time we had finished our hike in the Twelve Bens mountain range.