Find out what lay behind the birth of the 'blood and bandage'
An Fuil agus an Bindealan is an account of how Cork came to wear red and white, abandoning their original colours, which were blue with a large gold/saffron C in the middle of the chest, a little like a professional ice hockey team (the Calgary Calories, maybe).
In the documentary former Cork player and manager, and Irish Examiner columnist, Dónal O’Grady traces the transition: how the original blue and saffron-c jerseys were stolen by the Crown Forces in a 1919 raid on the county board offices (where did they end up?), and how the availability of jerseys from a small, recently-defunct club on the Bandon Road meant a switch to red and white.
