Football fans undo work of vandals at memorial bridge

Civic-minded football fans have undone the work of vandals at a bridge dedicated to an Irish footballer killed in the 1958 Munich air disaster.

Dubliner Liam Whelan was 22 when he and 20 others died in the airplane crash as Manchester United flew back from a European Cup match in February 1958.

The railway bridge on Fassaugh Rd-Dowth Avenue, near Whelan’s Phibsboro home, was renamed for the Irish international in 2006, and a plaque was unveiled by Whelan’s teammate, Bobby Charlton.