All but 1,500 of the 74,000 fans filling the Millennium Stadium were Irish supporters.

Up to 20,000 Irish supporters are believed to be planning to go to the US.

But the Irish supporters attending their team's victory over Romania last Monday in Genoa deserve a major salute.

Beresford and other Irish supporters of Ascendancy were alarmed at Fitzwilliam's policies.

Last year, after a trip to Northern Ireland, he angered many Irish supporters here by saying the British Army was not an occupying force.

Henry pardoned his Irish supporters, remarking drily "I suppose they will crown an ape next".

According to one account, Cornwallis ordered a number of Humbert's Irish supporters to be killed by lottery.

The Mayor might make peace with his Irish supporters.

But the team's fast start this season, overlapping the end of a mediocre football campaign, has Irish supporters talking about a revival this winter.

The name was then used from the 1720s to describe Irish supporters of the British whig party, specifically the Patriot faction within it.