FAI boss John Delaney announced on Newstalk this afternoon that Ireland will face England in a friendly in Dublin for the first time since the infamous 1995 fixture, which descended into rioting after an English goal was disallowed.
The rioting, which saw 20 people injured and the match abandoned, was perpetrated by the neo-Nazi group Combat 18. It would be 18 more years before the two sides faced off again, and ahead of that match we looked back on a defining moment in the history of football hooliganism – as well as recent Anglo-Irish relations.
Starting with an investigation into Combat 18, we discovered that the years since the riot have formed a grim tale of infighting, murder and collaboration with Loyalist paramilitary groups.
What happened to Combat 18 after the '95 Landsdowne Road riot?
Meanwhile, Newstalk Breakfast interviewed Ben Eglington, who worked as a cameraman covering the game. Trapped on the scaffolding as the violence unfolded, his story captures the terror that gripped those in Lansdowne Road that evening.
Landsdowne Road '95: "I was screaming at them to get someone up to help me"
And Eddie Vard, who worked on security that night, tells Tom Dunne his story. That night he helped families flee the violence, and witnessed serious injuries caused by projectiles before riot police regained control of the situation.
"I saw a cameraman go down like a dummy" - a security man at Landsdowne Road '95
