PICTURE GALLERY: Heatwave its West Cork

On duty in Garrettstown were County Council beach guards Eoin O’Donnell and Conall Boyle. (Photo: Denis Boyle)

Jessica Linehan enjoying the sunshine at Garrettstown. (Photo: Denis Boyle)

Bandon sisters Breda, Cait, Aine and Noreen McCarthy and their children Patrick, Rebecca, Brooke and Jake in Garrylucas. (Photo: Denis Boyle)

Enjoying the sunshine in Garrylucas were Daire Buckley, Aoibhe O’Regan and Kelly Anne Hogan from Kinsale. (Photo: Denis Boyle)

Gavin and Jessica Seaman from Bandon chilling in Courtmacsherry. (Photo: Denis Boyle)

In Garrettstown was Mary Corbett with her son-in-law Kevin McCarthy, his daughter Lily May, Patrick O’Brien and his son Parker. (Photo: Denis Boyle)

alerie O’Driscoll from Crookstown with ‘Charlie’ at Maloney’s Strand, near Barryroe.(Photo: Denis Boyle)

Temperatures hit 28C at the Warren, Rosscarbery on Monday. Tourists and locals flooded to the beach to take advantage of the coastal breeze. (Photo: Andy Gibson)

Abbey and Mathew O’Leary on Keelbeg Strand. (Photo: Andrew Harris)

Zara Coffey, Lorainne Feehan and Tracey Seaman in Courtmacsherry. (Photo: Denis Boyle)