1916 Centenary: The Olympic Games tied in with the road to the Rising

It was not just the GAA that provided a link between Irish sporting organisations and the 1916 Rising, writes Kevin McCarthy

The most traditional narrative about the links between sport and the 1916 Rising has been the GAA one, with debatable accuracy, but there is another story.

The GAA, at least in Ireland, imposed bans on its members participating in non-GAA competitions, or where members of the British army might also participate.