Weatherday: Dublin in the limelight

Food shopping, Bolivian Andes (2006).

Cloudy with scattered light rain or drizzle to start. Heavier showers of rain moving in over late morning and persisting through the afternoon. 

Temperatures up to 14deg in fresh gusty winds from the south, moderating later. More rain tonight. 

On this day in 1865, the Dublin International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, set up in the Iveagh Gardens behind the building that is now the National Concert Hall, was officially opened by Prince Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales.

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