Weatherday: 'No longer the country of hunger and famine'

It's going to be a rainy morning, peaking at lunchtime. Some cloudy respite during the afternoon, then showers through the evening.

Southerly winds moderate to fresh, gusts in the afternoon. Highest temperature of 14deg in the morning will slide through the afternoon.

On this day in 1963, US President John F Kennedy visited his ancestral home in New Ross during his state visit to Ireland.

(Headline quote from JFK speech to the Oireachtas on 28/6/63.)

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