Dublin’s Lord Mayor Daithi de Róiste has named a bridge for the victims of Bloody Sunday on the 103rd anniversary of the mass murder of spectators at a football match in Croke Park by british forces on November 20 1920.
The victims were:
- Jane Boyle aged 28 from Portobello, due to be married the following Friday and buried in her wedding dress.
- James Burke aged 44 from Windy Arbour.
- Daniel Carroll aged 30, form Tipperary and living in Drumcondra.
- Michael Feery aged 30, from Gardiner Place, ironically an ex British soldier.
- Michael Hogan, aged 24, champion of the football field, the man after whom the Hogan stand is named.
- Tom Hogan ,aged 19 from Limerick
- James Matthews, aged 48 from North Cumberland Street
- Patrick O’Dowd, aged 57 from Lower Buckingham Street
- Thomas Ryan, aged 27 from Wexford
- James Teehan ,aged 26 from Tipperary
- Joe Traynor, aged 20 from Inchicore
- Perry Robinson, aged 11, from Little Britain Street
- Billy Scott aged 14 from Fitzroy Avenue
- And Jerome O’Leary aged 10, placed on a wall by his father to watch the match
