Weatherday: Death of a hunger striker
A mix of sunny spells and partly cloudy through the day. Showers beginning at lunchtime will persist through the afternoon.
Highest temperature 10deg in light to moderate breezes from the west.
On this day in 1981, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died at Long Kesh prison on the 66th day of a hunger strike.
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