Wexford man honoured as one of the bloody sunday dead at croke park commemoration

The fourteen civilians shot dead at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday were honoured with a ceremony at Croke Park yesterday.

The RIC officers who burst into the stadium a hundred years ago shot some -- with more deaths and injuries in the panicked crush that followed. The Taoiseach Micheál Martin and the President Michael D Higgins laid wreaths on the spot where Tipperary footballer Michael Hogan was shot dead. Actor Brendan Gleeson told the story of a Wexford man Tom Ryan who was killed on that fateful day: [audio wav="https://www.southeastradio.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bloodyy.wav"][/audio]

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