BloodySunday It all started November 21st 1920. Dublin were scheduled to play tipperary. The night before the match a man named Micheal Collins ordered the assasination of Cairo Gang. They sent 14 British inteligence officers to infiltrait there organization.. That is how Bloody Sunday Began. They decided if they were going to go on a killing spree in Croke Park or loot O'Connell Street instead by tossing a coin. About 10,000 people went to Croke Park to watch the match. The game took place around 2:45 P.M. Shortly after the football game started an airplane flew over the park and shoot a red flare from the cockpit. Shortly after this some major rioting took place. After the flare was shoot out police raided the playing field. The first shot fired was by an officer with a revolver. Most of the people thought the police were firing blanks until they heard a machine gun that startd to increase in volume. Everybody ran to the railway wall, its was the furthest place from the gun fire. People stampered and ran over each just to get away from the gun fire. The casualties included Jeannie Boyle, who had gone to the match with her fiancee and was due to be married five days later, and 14-year-old John Scott, so mutilated that they thought he had been bayoneted to death. Two other victums were only 10 and 11 years old. A couple of the players Micheal Hogan and Jim Egnar never made it off the playing field alive. Many people were injured and killed. Just because a couple of people wanted to go on a murderous rampage. The authorities released a statement to the newspaper. “A number of men came to Dublin on Saturday under the guise of asking to attend a football match between Tipperary and Dublin. But their real intention was to take part in the series of murderous outrages which took place in Dublin that morning”. The original plan was for a police man to go into the middle of the match with a megaphone and invite the other assasins tocome forward. They could not do that because there were armed pickets. That is what took place November 21st 1920 in Ireland.
