Weatherday: "on my knees I beg you"

A bright day, with sunny spells most of the time. A little more cloud in the late afternoon, but it should stay dry until late in the evening.

Highest local temperatures 14deg, in light to moderate southerly breezes.

On this day in 1979, John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland.

(Headline: The pope's appeal to gunmen in the North of Ireland to "turn away from the path of violence".)

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