Weatherday: Long distance stamp

Brush Sheils and the late Jimmy Aspell at their Spout ICS fundraiser gig (2016).

The heavy overnight rain will continue through the morning, easing to sunny spells and showers in the afternoon.

Temperature up to 15deg in moderate to fresh breezes from the south with gusts.

On this day in 1939, a Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper flying boat operated by Pan American landed at Foynes from the United States, inaugurating the first scheduled airmail service between the US and Ireland,

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