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22nd November 2020
04:21pm GMT

"Michael Hogan from Grangemockler, County Tipperary, was thinking only of Frank Burke. The dancing, dazzling Dublin forward he was sentenced to mark. "He asked fellow defender, Bill Ryan, to swap, but he couldn't. Bill had lost his boots in a fight with some soliders on the train up from Tipperary the previous day. And these new ones were loose. "Michael Hogan returned to his bag and found a lace for Bill to tighten his boots. This simple act of kindness from one teammate to another, and a memory Bill would cherish for the rest of his life. By 3.25pm, Michael Hogan was on the ground beside Frank Burke, bullets were sparking of the walls of Croke Park. The pitch was being shredded by gunshots. Police were pouring into the ground. People were falling all around them, shot trampled, crushed. "In 90 seconds, 14 people lay dead and mortally wounded on the field and banks of Croke Park and on the streets outside. "Tonight, 100 years on, we pause to remember them all: the 14 who went to a match, and never came home."https://twitter.com/officialgaa/status/1330221043672354817
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