Weatherday: Death in the Troubles

Cloudy but dry start, though rain will come in from mid-morning. Likely to be persistent through the rest of the day.

Gentle breezes from the west, and highest temperature of 13deg before it dips with the rain.

On this day in 1969, what is considered to be the first civilian death in the Northern Ireland 'Troubles', an older Catholic farmer struck during a melee with the RUC in Dungiven.

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