Just watched a drama- doc thingie on the life and death of Kevin O'Higgins. It was stated in the commentary that his three assassins - Coughlin, Doyle and Gannon - were on the way to a football match at the time and spotted O'Higgins by chance and, happening to be armed, seized the opportunity... so my question is; does any one know what class of a football match they were going to, and if it was the Associationist code, who was playing? (wiki no help before anyone goes looking)
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So they're Rovers fans then.
So when did it all go wrong for Rovers fans?
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All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
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One of O'Higgins grandsons is actually a personal friend of mine. If you would like more information, I can find it out for you.
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Don't have to be so sharp, Sheep, it's quite obvious where he got stick fighting from. Someone mentions Wexford now you think hurling automatically. In fact, at the time they were a better known footballing than hurling side, and I also think it was, indeed, a football match the boys were heading to.
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Don't know if this is connected[or was a seperate incident altogether] but theirs a song about Aidan McAnespie and he was shot on his way to a gaelic ground.
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Afaik McAnespie was up my neck of the woods. Thought he was coming back from a game tho.
McAnespie was shot at the Aughnacloy border crossing. Shot by a british army unit from behind. He was unarmed and not a member of any branch of the republican movement.
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Now that we've sorted out that they were Gah-men and not the Milltown Casual Irregulars, does anyone have any info about small but crucial parts played in Irish history by football players or fans? as apocryphal as you like...
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Well not very small, but the obvious one, so it suits me , would be Oscar Traynor.
Don't know about his playing career, but President of the FAI for 15 years, lead the attack on the Custom House during the Tan War, ticks both boxes I'd have said!
Wiki-ed here...
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