Tom Carroll

Tommy Carroll discusses his many GAA experiences over the years and passes on stories he was told by the previous generation. He originally played for the Seán O’Mahony’s club in Louth before joining Young Irelands. Having represented his county at senior level he went on to become a county board delegate and was also a referee for some years. Tommy has many stories to tell of fractious encounters on and off the field in decades gone by, of Republican elements within Louth GAA circles, and of the sights and sounds on big match days in Dublin. He recalls attending the ‘Thunder and Lightning’ final in 1939 as World War II broke out, and he was a member of Louth’s 1957 All-Ireland winning panel. Tommy also reveals that his father was at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday and recalls what he had been told about that fateful day when he was growing up.