Today marks the 96th anniversary of the events of Bloody Sunday at Croke Park on November 21, 1920 when 14 people were killed and hundreds more wounded when British Forces opened fire on the crowd attending a Dublin-Tipperary football challenge match.  

Last Saturday, GAA President Aogán Ó Fearghail attended a special ceremony at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin to unveil a headstone on the grave of one of those victims, 30 year-old Tipperary native Daniel Carroll.  

Ó Fearghail said: "The GAA is a family and it is important that we look after each other.  

"The events of Bloody Sunday when people were murdered attending one of our games were tragic and traumatic.  

"We give thanks for the fact that the island of Ireland today is in a better and more peaceful place than it was in the past, but we have never forgotten nor, will we ever forget, the loss of life that occurred at Croke Park that day."  

The GAA is continuing to work on a project identifying the final resting place of all of the victims and ensuring that they are appropriately recognised.  

The Croke Park Bloody Sunday dead are:

Jane Boyle (26), Lennox St, Dublin. Charge hand to a pork butcher

James Burke (44), Windy Arbour, Dublin. Employed by Terenure Laundry

Daniel Carroll (30), Templederry, Tipperary. Bar manager of Kennedy's of Drumcondra

Michael Feery (40), Gardiner Place, Dublin. Unemployed

Mick Hogan (24), Grangemockler, Tipperary. Farmer and Tipperary footballer

Tom Hogan (19), Tankardstown, Limerick. Mechanic

James Matthews (38), North Cumberland Rd, Dublin. Labourer

Patrick O'Dowd (57), Buckingham St, Dublin. Labourer

Jerome O'Leary (10), Blessington St, Dublin. Schoolboy

William Robinson (11), Little Britain St, Dublin. Schoolboy

Tom Ryan (27), Glenbrien, Wexford. Labourer

John William Scott (14), Fitzroy Ave, Dublin. Schoolboy

James Teehan (26), Tipperary. Publican

Joe Traynor (21), Ballymount, Dublin. Labourer

 

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