Weatherday: To school in the hedges

Rain through the morning will ease to an otherwise grey day with the chance of a scattered shower in early afternoon.

Southwest winds will be moderate. Highest local temperature around 15deg and humid through the evening.

On this day in 1695, one of the Penal Laws is passed which restrict the rights of Catholics to have an education abroad. Others forbid Catholics the right to teach, to bear arms, or to possess a horse worth more than five pounds.

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