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Accrington's average League Two attendance this season is 2,434 but double that number are making the journey from east Lancashire to Anfield to cheer on John Doolan's underdogs.

Daithi Doolan, from the South Inner City Drug and Alcohol Partnership, said many homes in Dublin had some form of addiction.

Doolan, who is also a Sinn Féin councillor, said communities cannot cope with the scale of drug use.

BBC Verify identified two of his prominent supporters in video footage of Southport protests: Rikki Doolan and Jesse Clarke, who last week had appeared on stage at a demonstration for Yaxley-Lennon.

Mr Doolan, a self-styled preacher, recorded a video of himself at the protest in Southport saying: “I’m British and proud, otherwise I wouldn’t be here.”