Weatherday: Death from the skies

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge, New Ross (2020).

A bright morning with scattered showers and good sunny spells. Showers will increase in the afternoon.

Temperature high of 10deg in fresh to moderate blustery breezes from the south.

On this day in 1941, three members of the Shannon family were killed when a German bomb hit their home in the village of Knockroe, Co Carlow.

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