Weatherday: First women's soccer at Croker

Springtime in Altamont Gardens, Carlow (2017).

A mix of cloud and sunshine to start, the cloud increasing for the afternoon. It should stay dry until early evening. then rain arriving in sometimes thundery bursts. 

Temperature up to 15deg in moderate breezes that will increase fresh to strong from the south.

On this day in 1896, a combined women's team from Ireland and Scotland beat an England women's team in the first game of soccer to be played at the City and Suburban Ground in Dublin, now known as Croke Park.

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