On Thursday morning OTB AM got the chance to talk to Jonathan Courtenay, owner of MD JACC Sports Distributors & Toplion Sportswear, the company behind Ireland’s football kits.
Naturally enough, talk eventually turned to Ireland’s 1997/98 orange shirts which has developed cult-status and become one of the most sought-after Irish jerseys in the booming classic shirt market.
And we delved into 20-years of rumours about the IRA stealing most of the orange gear…
“It was the INLA (the Irish National Liberation Army – a socialist paramilitary group active during ‘The Troubles’) I believe – not the IRA,” Courtenay told Off The Ball…
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