Find out what lay behind the birth of the 'blood and bandage'

Tonight there’s a documentary on TG4 which I heartily recommend, and not for the viewer-retardant fact that I appear in it.

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.