Club of Michael Hogan, killed on Bloody Sunday, seeking county title glory this weekend

On November 22, the club intend unveiling a statue to the captain of the Tipperary team that faced Dublin in that challenge game on that ill-fated November 21 afternoon

The Tipp footballers congregating around where Michael Hogan was shot in Croke Park in the November 1910 atrocity that became known as 'Bloody Sunday'. Jimmy McNamara, from Cahir, is the Tipp player on the extreme right of the picture. Picture: Courtesy Colm O'Flaherty.

Grangemockler/Ballyneale chairman Bernard Fogarty says winning the county intermediate football title this weekend would be a fitting tribute to their favourite son Michael Hogan.

Just two months shy of the 100-year anniversary of Bloody Sunday when Hogan was shot dead by British forces in Croke Park, the club of the tragic figure face Rockwell Rovers in Clonmel on Saturday.