How did a Championship match end with a Garda Sergeant standing in the dock on a charge of murder? In 1929, what should have been another summer afternoon of Gaelic football instead set in motion an extraordinary chain of events involving players, supporters, the Gardaí and, ultimately, the courts. In this episode of Over The Bar, Michael Foley and Ciarán O’Hara go back almost a century to reconstruct a remarkable story from the Championship: the match itself, the trouble that followed, the death that transformed the affair into something far more serious, and the sensational murder charge that followed.
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