Weatherday: Hunger strike MP

Another cool start. Sunny spells through the day. Wintry showers developing in the afternoon with the risk of isolated thunderstorms.

A high of 9deg in light northerly breezes, gusty during showers.

On this day in 1981, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won a seat in the British Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election. He died in prison less than a month later.

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