Weatherday: First President

President McAleese speaking at the opening of Kilcullen Parish Centre (2006).

Overnight frost will clear to give a mostly bright and clear day. Some cloud moving in through the evening.

It will stay dry, with a temperature high of 6deg in light southerly breezes.

On this day in 1860, Douglas Hyde was born in Castlerea, Co Roscommon. He would serve as the first President of Ireland from 1938-1945.

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