Earlscliffe - Howth Weather

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1906 - Temperance reformers meet with the Lord-Lieutenant, seeking Sunday closing for all public houses, earlier closing on Saturdays and a reduction of licences throughout the country.
1917 - David Lloyd-George announces that he wants immediate Home Rule for 26 counties of Ireland. The remaining six counties are to be excluded for five years.
1926 - Fianna Fáil is founded by Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass.
1929 - First Academy Awards ceremony was held and honoured the best films of 1927 and 1928
1938 - The Irish Department of Justice bans Photography magazine because of 'attention given to the female nude'.
1954 - A huge Marian Year procession is held in Dublin.
2001 - Proposals to locate the first wind farm off the country's west coast are unveiled. The £100 million project is to be located off the north Kerry coast on the southern lip of the Shannon estuary and is to involve the construction of between 20 and 30 wind turbines.
2001 - British Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott punches a man who throws an egg at him during a visit to north Wales.
2002 - Iarnród Eireann's first female train driver, Teresa Carey from Kerry, begins her career driving the Cork-Heuston train.
2011 - The European Union agree to €78 billion rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund.
2014 - The Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe ruled that, for the first time since the formation of the police force, members of the Garda Síochána could join a labour union and would be allowed to strike