Weatherday: Key to freedom

Rob Strong and fan Fergal Sloan, at a gig in The Hideout (2006).

A few bright spells this morning, but mostly cloudy. It should be dry, though a few spots of light rain or drizzle possible. A band of heavy rain will move in from late afternoon and will be persistent through the evening.

Temperature up to 10deg in moderate to fresh wind from the southwest.

On this day in 1919, Eamon de Valera escaped from Lincoln Jail in England, with the help of a smuggled in key.

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