Weatherday: The Castledermot Parliament

Some possible thundery showers early will clear to a cloudy morning. There's a weather warning though, and by lunchtime rain will have moved in, persistent and substantial.

Ongoing possibility of heavy thundery bursts through the night. Highest temperature 17deg locally, in light northerly breeze.

On this day in 1264, the first recorded sitting of the Parliament of Ireland took place in Castledermot, Co Kildare.

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