http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7484182.stm
Almost 1/4 of the entire population of northern Ireland have applied for an Irish passport in the last 10 years.
More than 400,000 people in Northern Ireland have claimed Irish passports in the ten years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, it has emerged.
Irish government officials said 402,658 NI people have renewed or taken out Irish passports since April 1998.
Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers.
How interesting................... NOT ! .
Originally Posted by Centurian
How interesting................... NOT ! .
Is there no cartoons on TV to help you add to your Americanised vocabulary, Dude?
Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers.
Whatever Dude ! .
Here that was a real good one there. See what he done?! See what he done?!How interesting................... NOT ! .
Mr McGlone said he was aware that people from a unionist background had claimed Irish passports, "because the country's traditional neutrality made it a safer passport to travel on".
Irish when convenient.
Mr McGlone said he was aware that people from a unionist background had claimed Irish passports, "because the country's traditional neutrality made it a safer passport to travel on".
Irish when convenient.
just like Foot and Mouth...
Will German, French or Dutch inscribe the epitaph of Emmet?
When we have sold enough of Ireland to be but strangers in it.
- Luke Kelly
It is cheaper is it not?
My father wasn't really political but worked in the Middle East in the late 70s. He reckoned an Irish passport was your free pass from a hostage situation.( We're Nordies) Doubt it would help your ass much now thanks to Shannon and images of certain political leaders brown-nosing Bush.
There was a time when it was the reverse, and many people from the 26 counties were applying for British passports based on their parents being born in England or their grandparents being born pre partition etc. This was when Irish people needed a visa to enter the States and Brits didn't. ************************ty 1980s.
Just 1 gram of cocaine destroys 4m2 of tropical rainforest. Give it up ya selfish b'stards.
Unionists travel on an Irish passport when visiting an Arab country simply to give the impression they are Irish when considering personal safety.
They have no gra for the Republic but use this facility for their own selfish reason.
I know plenty of both Unionists and Nationalists living in Northern Ireland who have both passports. Most do it for reasons of convenience. For instance, I understand that you will get a better (possibly longer?) visa for Australia on a British passport and I know from experience that it is cheaper to travel around Africa on an Irish one.
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