The Champions League is currently light on Irish footballers. We all remember Keane and Irwin and Finnan (not to mention Cillian Sheridan) featuring in Europe's showpiece club tournament but what of the guys who people have forgotten played in the biggest competition in club football.
Players who only featured in the qualifying rounds are excluded.
Jeff Kenna
Blackburn's season in the Champions League has been more or less forgotten - a fact which pleases many people, most notably Blackburn fans as well as the staff of Blackburn Rovers Football Club, circa 1995-96.
It was the last year when just the champions made it into the Champions League and Blackburn were England's sole representative (Manchester United put in a very half-hearted effort at the UEFA Cup).
Blackburn succeeded in finishing bottom of a group containing Rosenborg, Legia Warsaw and Spartak Moscow, winning one match, drawing one and losing four - including all three games on the road.
Jeff started in five of the six games.
To be fair to Blackburn, English teams struggled badly for much of the 1990s, though United would make great strides the following season.
David Connolly
Holland's highest paid player made several appearances in the 1997-98 Champions League campaign where Feyenoord were drawn in a group with a couple of obvious sharks, Juventus and Manchester United. They suffered against the big two but the beat the Slovakians Kosice home and away.
He came off the bench late in Turin as Feyenoord were stuffed 5-1 but he started in their 2-1 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford. He didn't notch up any goals in the competition.
Darren Potter
He played Champions League football on the team that won it no less. He played the last five minutes of Liverpool's 3-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen in the last 16 of the 2005 Champions League. Unfortunately he was left out of the match-day squad in Istanbul.
Alan Maybury
God Bless Leeds United run of 2000-01, God Bless David O'Leary and his babies, God Bless Peter Ridsdale and God Bless 'living the dream'. That Leeds team gave many Irish boys Champions League experience on their weird and wonderful run to the semi-finals in 2001.
Maybury started in the 3-3 draw with Lazio at Elland Road.
He would have made more appearances but for the injury he suffered following a challenge from Pavel Nedved.
Stephen McPhail
As above, Stephen McPhail was another one of David O'Leary's Irish accented babies and he made three Champions League appearances in that season of 2000-01.
McPhail played in the big games too, featuring against Barcelona and Lazio.
Alan Mahon
It's a privilege to get spanked 4-0 at the Bernabeu and during his one season at Sporting Lisbon, Mahon was part of an effort which succeeded in doing just that. He was withdrawn at half-time.
Liam Miller
Reasonably memorable one this one. His goal in Celtic's 2-0 win over Lyon, a strike which prompted Alex Ferguson's brother to walk out of the stand and tell Alex Ferguson to buy the Corkman, was the high point - and not just of his Celtic career.
Andy O'Brien
A mainstay in the Newcastle defence during the booming Bobby Robson era, when Newcastle mixed it with the big bys between 2002 and 2004.
O'Brien made a whopping eleven starts across Newcastle's Champions League run (though this number includes qualifiers.) The alternative was Titus Bramble. A solid performer for a number of seasons for Newcastle and Ireland.
