Kerry loss puts Rising at risk

In early November 1915, on the weekend of the All-Ireland final, the Tralee Republican leader Austin Stack dispatched three men disguised as Kerry football supporters to Dublin.

Kerry and Wexford were about to do battle on the field of play and for Stack the game provided perfect cover for a plan to smuggle arms back into the Kingdom.

Pádraig Pearse had visited Stack in Tralee that October and the two men hatched a plan to arm volunteers in the lead up to the 1916 Rising.