Emmett Farrell recalls Bloody Sunday: 'The British Army propaganda machine went into action'

As we walked into the hotel the RTÉ news came on the TV: 'Six people were shot dead at the civil rights march in Derry today...'

Marchers on route through Derry in the 1972 Civil Rights protest. File photo

I was corner-forward on the Galway side beaten by Offaly in the 1971 All-Ireland final, and I was there when Galway played Derry in the Brandywell in the December of that year.

That’s right - the Brandywell. It was a fundraiser for the Northern Relief Fund - the Troubles were getting more and more serious around that time, and as a sign of that we stayed in Lifford the night before the game rather than in Derry itself.