Weatherday: Capital crime and punishment

The drizzly rain from overnight will clear to a mainly cloudy day. Temperatures up to 12deg in a light breeze that will shift from southerly to the north-west.

A generally mild night is forecast.

On this day in 1954, Michael Manning was the last person to be executed in the Republic of Ireland, for the murder of a nurse, Catherine Cooper.

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