Weatherday: Death of a princess

Ireland's Eye off Howth.

A mainly dry day with cloud and sunny spells. Some rain in the late afternoon and early evening.

Temperatures up to 20deg in very light southerly to variable breezes.

On this day in 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco died following a car crash. Her grandfather had left Mayo for America in 1887 and subsequent to her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco she had visited, and later bought, her ancestral home.

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