 Hence, an estimated 100,000 people took part in an anti-war march in Dublin (the organisers had expected 20,000) with demands being made that the United States be refused permission to use Shannon Airport as a stop over point when flying their soldiers from the United States to countries bordering Iraq.Yet opinion polls showed that the Irish "would" support a war "if" it had United Nations approval.What they would not support was a non-UN-sanctioned war declared in defiance of the UN by the Bush administration.