Weatherday: No more Casti connubii

A snowy January in Old Kilcullen (2010).

There's a mist and fog warning in place until midday, and early travellers should also be aware of icy conditions after a night of frost.

A largely dry and cloudy day with temperature high of 3deg in still conditions, increasing to moderate breezes from the north east for a time in late afternoon. Another sub-zero night.

On this day in 1973, the Irish Supreme Court decided that a ban on contraceptives in force since 1935 was unconstitutional.

Headline: Casti connubii was the encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI in 1930 prohibiting people of the Roman Catholic faith from using any form of artificial birth control.

Photographs use Policy — Privacy Policy