The connection was easy to make because the two men were driven by the same passions.
Dick Fitzgerald and James ‘Sham’ Spellissy became close friends after the 1916 Rising when they were interned in Frongoch in north Wales. Both were diehard republicans. And both men were fanatical about football.
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