Irish passport?

Grammaretto I remember the tensions on the train as the border drew near ! We were on a visit to relations in Navan and were returning , with a few "extras" to "The North"

Property is already in trouble. My son is trying to sell his lovely flat beside tube and rail link but no one wants it.

My ex DiL is applying for Irish passports for her 2 children as their father is Irish.
I must admit until she told me a few weeks ago it wasn't something I knew about, or rather hadn't thought about.
They want them to have freedom to travel.

Yes, the majority of my friends who have Irish parents have applied for Irish passports. So have their adult children.

I may apply as a protest against the lack of freedoms we now have.

Please don't! People who actually need theirs for travel etc are being caught up in the back log!

The back log is also affecting Irish citizens in UK who have no other citizenship to fall back on!

Your "protest" wont affect anyone but them!

I was married to an Irish man , children all have Irish passports, my youngest sister was born here so she has the same , my ancestors were Irish but not near enough so I can’t get an Irish passport , what I want is a Scottish one !

My daughter got Irish passports for my two grandkids who’s father died as he was Irish and they were both born in Ireland but had a UK passport when they came to live here They now have the choice she did that three years ago when the trouble first kicked off it was not expensive and arrived very quickly

I have two other grandkids born in Ireland with Irish passports one born in Belgium and two born in NZ so thankfully all my grandkids will be able to travel

I enquired last week. It costs 278 euros and takes a year at present. This is for citizenship which you need before applying for a passport.
I may apply as a protest against the lack of freedoms we now have.

When Cameron's referendum came out marginally in favour of leaving the EU, I don't believe any of us knew how many freedoms and rights would be denied us. Freedoms we had helped to secure.
I drove across the border last week. Now it is hardly noticeable. We need to keep it so.

I've had my Irish passport for many years but then my parents were Irish. One of my three children now has her Irish passport, it took 9 months in all to get because the process is two part - first you must be registered in the Book of Foreign Births, secondly you apply for the passport itself.

Daughter 2 has just started applying. There are huge delays because of the number of people applying.

www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/irish_citizenship/irish_citizenship_through_birth_or_descent.html

I’m married to an Irishman my understanding is that claiming Irish Nationality only goes back two generations, so our children and grandchildren can apply for an Irish passport through their Irish father/ grandfather if they wish (they don’t) I’d be interested to know if things have changed since I last enquired which was about 1983 when my last child was born.

Thanks for answering. When I sell my house I plan to travel, a lot, and now I'm alone separate queues won't apply I think I might investigate further, my grandmother was Irish.

My parents were from Southern Ireland and I have considered this but my DH is English through and through so it wouldn't help us really.

I dont think its as simple as folk think.I do have a friend who voted leave and the first thing he did was get irish passports for his sons which made my blood boil.He thinks property will plummet in teh EU and his sons can "clean up" and make a fortune!He of course will occupy one of said cheap luxury properties ,people like this make me sick.

No, but I know someone who works in the passport office and they have been inundated and had to take on extra staff for the past 3 years!