A few minutes before the game between Dublin and Tipperary began, 10-year-old Jerome O’Leary was lifted onto the wall that ran along the back of Croke Park behind the goals at the canal end of the ground.

When the first shots rang out from the canal bridge to his left, O’Leary was shot in the head and killed.

When the shooting was at its worst, Major George Dudley, the officer in charge of the Black and Tans at Croke Park that day, directed a spectator to take Jerome’s body away. The spectator called to an ambulance as it charged past, but it couldn’t stop.

Jerome lay in the Mater hospital that night, his body unclaimed, and was buried in Glasnevin cemetery, the youngest victim of the massacre at Croke Park.