Bloody Sunday ticket sells for over €5,000

A piece of Irish history sold for just over €5,000 as an auction bidder snapped up a rare ticket for the football game that ended in tragedy at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday in 1920.

The ticket had been kept in the pages of a book on the shelf at a family home in Co Clare until they brought it in to local auctioneer Aidan Foley recently.

On the morning of Nov 21, 1920, IRA gunmen murdered 14 British intelligence agents and other members of the Crown forces in Dublin. That afternoon, police and soldiers turned up to the match between Tipperary and Dublin and 15 people were shot dead, including Tipperary fullback Michael Hogan, a woman and two boys.