A bridge near Croke Park in Dublin is to be renamed Bloody Sunday Bridge in remembrance of the 1920 killings at the GAA stadium despite calls from some councillors for a pause in the plan.
For the past three years, debate and public consultation has been ongoing over changing the name from the Clonliffe Bridge/Russell Street Bridge to the new name associated with events in Dublin on November 21, 1920.
A total of 14 people were killed by the Auxiliaries and “Black and Tans” at a match at Croke Park just hours after IRA operatives carried out a series of assassinations against British military intelligence, killing or fatally wounding 15 men.
