The past two days have been uncomfortable for the Irish people as whole. 

If the recent heatwave has thought us anything it's that we are just not cut out for these kind of temperatures. We need some safeguards going forward and we need them installed at a constitutional level. 

If you want to effect change then perhaps it's worth your while taking a look at this petition over at Go Siesta. They're looking to get 7,500 signatures in their petition which they plan to send to among others, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the Minister for Health Simon Harris, which states that should the temperatures ever reach 24 degrees celsius in our country the we should be granted permission to down tools immediately and enjoy the sunshine rather than swelter in it. 

The website also includes the letter they plan to send to Enda Kenny once they get the signature which highlights the plight of Ireland's population before resorting to bribery to get it over the line by offering, among other things, to buy Enda a choc ice. Here's the letter in full: 

Dear An Taoiseach,

I write this letter representing the sweaty, over-worked people of Ireland.

I can only assume you’re struggling in your own office right now; your red-raw greasy neck smushed into the collar of your trusty blue cedarwood-state shirt… And that puce tie your kids bought you slowly strangling all thought from your brain.

You, like us, need a day off.

ITS THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR, ENDA.

C’mon. Be sound, lad.

If this petition reaches the required 7,500 signatures, and the temperature gauge reaches 24 degrees celcius, we demand an automatic day off to be enacted.

A day to run through the streets/fields/parks in this glorious heat and sunshine.

-We will buy you a Choc Ice.

-We promise to stay out ‘till it gets dark.

-We promise to be nicer to each other.

-We will shrug off nettle stings and grassy knees with child-like abandon.

-We will embrace our sunburn like patchy-badges of pride.

-We will visit Beer-Gardens responsibly.

-We will be happy…

-We will feel like we’re all in this together, a nation united by blissful sunshine.

As the great Bowie said, even “…Just for one day…”

Sincerely,

The Irish People.

So if you're ready to stand up to having to work in this oppressive weather and want to see change or you just want to encourage the fellas that set it up so that their project was not in vain, then you can head over to gosiesta.org to have a look.