Weatherday: "The question is, do you want to do it?"

Old mass rock above Clashganny Lock, Co Carlow (2017).

A mix of cloud and clear this morning. Perhaps some patches of light rain or drizzle, clearing by lunchtime.

Temperatures up to 14deg in light southerly breezes.

On this day in 1889, American journalist Nellie Bly began her around-the-world race against the fictional record of Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days; she completed the journey in slightly more than 72 days.

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