Weatherday: Goodbye to all that

The misty drizzle start will improve to give a dry day. Mostly cloudy, though, with some chance of bright spells later.

Temperatures up to 11deg in light southerly breeze.

On this day in 1949, the Irish Free State left the British Commonwealth, confirming its status of republic as declared the previous year. The six counties comprising Northern Ireland remained within the United Kingdom.

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