A bridge in Dublin could soon be renamed as 'Bloody Sunday Bridge'.
City councillors voted to support the motion in memory of the 14 civilians shot dead by British forces in Croke Park 100 years ago.
A process will now start on getting the renaming of Clonliffe Bridge approved by the full council through the commemorative naming committee.
Councillor Nial Ring put forward the motion and he says:
"It is very fitting that we decided to rename the bridge "Bloody Sunday Bridge" as we approach the centenary of that massacre of innocent civilians in Croke Park".
"The bridge was built many years after the Royal Canal opened and so was not named after one of the Royal Canal company directors like Newcomen, Blaquiere, Binns etc., so its name is not so well known."
"In fact, locally nobody really refers to its official name of Clonliffe Bridge but rather Jones' Road or Russell Street Bridge".
"The process will now commence to get the renaming approved by the full council through the commemorative naming committee process and hopefully when crowds again go to Croke Park they will see and appreciate "Bloody Sunday Bridge", he concluded., but meanwhile the victims of Bloody Sunday".
