Weatherday: Irish horses led at Waterloo

Kilcullen participants in Ladies Mini Marathon (2008).

A partly cloudy start then a mostly cloudy rest of the day until the early evening when it will clear.

Temperatures up to 15deg in light westerly breezes.

On this day in 1815, British forces under the command of the Dublin-born Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon's army at Waterloo in Belgium. Napoleon's horse was reared in Co Wexford and that used by the Iron Duke was from Co Cork.

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