Weatherday: Colbinstown train robbery

A dry and cloudy day with some sunny spells. It will be humid with temperatures up to 21deg in moderate to fresh wind from the south-west.

On this day in 1921 the mail train from Sallins to Tullow was raided at Colbinstown and all the mail was taken. An investigating police patrol sent from Dunlavin was fired upon.

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