Weatherday: The planter of the future age
If you enjoyed yesterday's weather — and who wouldn't? — then you'll enjoy it today too.
Frost will clear quickly. Sunny through the day, air temperatures getting up to 11deg and feeling more, light variable breeze. The garden furniture is out again.
On this day in 1726, Englishman Abraham Shackleton started a school at Ballitore, mainly for Quakers but also available to Protestant and Catholic children in the area. Pupils included parliamentarian Edmund Burke, and others came from as far away as Bordeaux, Jamaica and Norway to stay and study in the school.
Headline: Edmund Burke's description of his former teacher.
