Jane Boyle lived on Lennox Street near the Grand Canal on the southside of Dublin and worked as a charge hand at a butcher shop on Talbot Street in the centre of the city. On the morning of Bloody Sunday she went to Mass at St Kevin’s Church on nearby Harrington Street with Daniel Byron, her fiancée, where they were due to be married later that week.

That afternoon they went to Croke Park for the football game between Dublin and Tipperary and found a good spot near the halfway line on the bank now occupied by the Cusack Stand. When the firing started, they both ran towards the exit between the bank and Hill 60 at the north eastern corner of the ground.

“We were standing near the centre line of the ground opposite the grandstand,” Daniel said, when interviewed barely more than a week later by an official representing a British Labour Party commission examining the state of law and order in Ireland. “The match had been in progress about a quarter of an hour when I saw an aeroplane approach, hover over the ground, and then go away. Almost immediately afterwards I heard the sound of shots coming from the direction of the bridge outside the ground, and my fiancée, who had hold of my arm, was shot dead.”

Jane’s funeral took place the following Thursday at the same church she went to Mass that Sunday morning, a thousand people spilling onto the street outside. She was buried in Glasnevin cemetery the following Thursday, dressed in her wedding gown, aged 29.