Weatherday: Let us take The Bastille!

Grasses on Nicholastown Green.

Early cloud will eventually clear away to bright or sunny spells. Some cloud again in the late afternoon. Temperatures up to 22deg in light westerly breezes.

On this day in 1789, the first act in the French Revolution took place, the storming of The Bastille fortress in Paris. One of those leading the event was a Wexford-born boot-maker, Joseph Kavanagh, who later became a police officer in the new regime.

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