The Split

Brendan Behan, author, raconteur and one time IRA volunteer once joked that the first item on the agenda of any Dublin IRA meeting was always the split. There is a grain of truth in his assertation that there is a quarrelsome and fractious part of the Celtic soul. The founding generation of Celtic FC would doubtless agree with that as there were those who dropped out at an early stage as others, described as the ‘more pushy types,’ took over in those early days...