hat is it about rainbow that make us so mystical and mythical, 
and generally all-round misty-eyed…?
It’s just sunlight hitting water droplets just so, and creating a spectrum of light in the sky…
Still, there is something undeniably beautiful, and more than a little magical, about a rainbow. Especially given that there be a crock o’ gold at the end of it. Somewhere. Over the railway. Way up high in the Burnaby.
Dee Brennan 18MAY17
Regular as cuckoo clock works, spring and summer battle it out in true Irish fashion, with magnificent bursts of sun and great big splatterings of rain go head-to-head – and those multi-coloured arcs have been popping up all over Greystones in the last few days.
Susan Brambell 21MAY17
And just about every Tom, Dee Brennan and Susan Brambell has managed to get a wonderful picture or two of these beauties.
Even GG was pretty darn proud of the above shot, taken on Saturday evening as Greystones main street recovered from yet another heavy shower.
South Beach Rainbow by Brian Keeley 20MAY17
But then, we got home, and checked our inbox.
And there, smiling back at us, bigger, brighter and more colourful than we could ever have imagined, were Brian Keeley’s glorious shots of the same rainbow.
And being Keeley, the bugger would have you believe that the rainbow was leading us all to the Ballygannon end of the South Beach. Where, when you think about it, there’s gold a-plenty.
A big shout-out too to another Guide favourite, Lisa Hempenstall, whose double-rainbow on the South Beach from a little further back than Brian’s dirty big lens can reach is also a thing of joy and wonder.
We’ve included some earlier rainbow warriors here, because, hey, that’s how we roll…
An Irish Summer SAT5AUG23 Rob Lawless funlovephotos
Rainbow Cove SAT15JULY23 Nikki Clarke
Drummin Trees rainbow TUES4JULY23 Nick Bradshaw
Between Showers by Susan Kyne 2021
Rainbow Main Street Rain Home 20MA17
Killincarrig Castle Rainbow 10JUNE22 Tara Crawford
Gold Digger by Sara Toolan
Pot Of Gold by Niamh Delmar
Lifeguard Hut 9AUG21 Ruth Spurling
Somewhere… California Kev SAT1FEB20
South Beach Bubble SUN3JAN20 John McKiernan
Somewhere Over The Cliff Walk MON2NOV20 Barbara Connolly
Bucket Of Gold SAT8JUNE19 Pablo Photography
Rainbow South Beach 18MAY17 Lisa Hempenstall
Rainbow On South Beach Sat 20MAY17 Brian Keeley
Rainbow On South Beach Sat 20MAY17 Brian Keeley
Rainbow On South Beach Sat 20MAY17 Brian Keeley
South Beach Thurs 18MAY17 Brian Keeley
Drummin Trees Rainbow. Pic Anne Fitzsimmons
Rainbow Bear 8JUNE17 Niall McKenna
Rainbow Over Greystones by Tommy Moran 23NOV17
Somewhere… California Kev SAT1FEB20
Pot Of Gold by Sue Williams
Pot O’ Gold by Julie Williams
Rainbow from The Cove 20MAY17 Flynn Twins
Kilcoole Beach After The Storm 21OCT17 Brenda Malley
Rainbows End. Pic John Hickey
Rainbow Bear 28FEB17 Pea McDonald
Double Rainbow Delight. Source: Unknown
Rainbow Sunday 19MAR17 Brian Keeley
Wave On by Trysha Fitzmaurice
Harbour Rainbow Fri 10MAR17 Brian Keeley
North Beach Rainbow Pic Cian Ó Dálaigh Riain
Harbour Rainbow 2007 Pablo Photography
Rainbow Sun 25SSEPT16 Liz Cusack
Morning Glory Rainbow April 2017 Liz Cusack
Sugar Loaf Rainbow Tues 26JULY17 Fiona Alston
Greystones Rapeseed Field by Feargal Breathnach