The day after the Bloody Sunday shootings Daniel Carroll from Templederry, Co Tipperary, lay in bed at Jervis Street hospital telling his story to Martin Kennedy, his boss, and Martin’s wife. He recalled going to Kennedy’s bar in Drumcondra near Croke Park to open up even though it was his day off, considering the idea of heading down to see Tipperary play Dublin, and eventually deciding at 2.30pm to go.

He had even escaped the ground, he told Kennedy, when he was hit in the leg from a police lorry. His leg was bandaged all the way to his waist, the surgeons having extracted a bullet from his thigh bone. “Wasn’t it misfortunate I went,” he said.

Daniel was 31 years old and lived with the Kennedys on James’s Street East. When he wasn’t working he spent most of his time with his sister, Mary. Another brother, Denis, had just started work at a grocery shop in Lucan. His brother Joseph had been awarded a Croix De Guerre by the French government for his bravery as a fighter pilot during World War One. Now he worked for the Munster and Leinster Bank in Carrick-on-Suir.

Daniel suffered on through the night before news of his death reached Kennedy and his family the following morning. “He was the most inoffensive man I ever knew,” said Kennedy. Daniel was buried at Glasnevin cemetery.