Weatherday: The hangman cheated

Kilcullen GAA in party mode (2017).

Largely dry this morning, a few bright spells but otherwise remaining cloudy.

A high of 6deg in light westerly winds.

On this day in 1606, Guy Fawkes, a conspirator of the failed Gunpowder Plot at the British House of Lords, was led to be hanged. However, he fell from the scaffold and broke his neck before the sentence could be carried out.

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