Weatherday: Hanged on a comma

Montbretia Lucifer plant in Mount Usher Gardens.

Mainly dry, but cloudy through most of the day. Showers in the afternoon, clearing in the late evening.

Temperature up to 18deg in light southerly breeze.

On this day in 1916, Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged in London, the last of the executions related to the Easter Rising.

Headline: Casement's comment on the interpretation of the British legislation under which he was tried and convicted of treason.

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