Weatherday: Bealach a Seacht
The heavy frost overnight can mean icy patches on the roads and underfoot, so be careful. Clouding over during the morning, possibility of wintry showers. By lunchtime rain will settle in and continue through the evening.
Remaining cold throughout with moderate breezes shifting from west to north. Highest temperature of 4deg in early evening.
On this day in 1961, Radio Teilifís Éireann began transmission.
Headline: How the Channel 7 on which the station transmitted was described in Irish.