Monday, June 08, 2020

Weatherday: "It’s as hard to give up the drink as it is to raise the dead ..."

The early cloud will clear to a sunny day.

Light north westerly winds, and the temperature will reach 18deg in the Kilcullen area.

On this day in 1925, Matt Talbot died in Dublin on his way to mass. An alcoholic from an early age, his subsequent life of abstinence, charity, piety and asceticism has made him an icon amongst Irish catholics.

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