Of course, that's when the real irony kicked in.

The real irony is of course that it would be very easy to make schools perform better.

The real irony is, it was one sweltering weekend in August 1989.

The real irony is that their mechanism has been cracked.

The real irony is that this will probably make him more popular - at least with Mail readers.

"You want to know what the real irony is?"

There was a chance for real irony here, a bit of poetic justice, if she could just figure out how to orchestrate it.

The real irony was that Brennan had been given command of the assault.

He thought - not for the first time - that there was a real irony in all this.

But the real irony of the statement was that it was true.