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On 21 November 1920, Dublin’s Croke Park, home of Gaelic football, hosted the Great Challenge Match between Tipperary and Dublin. That morning, the Cairo Gang — a team of British undercover officers whose aim was to eliminate the Irish independence movement — was wiped out by The Twelve Apostles, a branch of the IRA headed by Michael Collins. Convinced that the killers were concealed amongst the crowd at Croke Park, the notorious police division known as the Black & Tans headed to the ground and indiscriminately shot at spectators and players alike, a massacre which became known as Bloody Sunday.
