LesMalouinettes wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 12:02 am
That was how I understood it too. Thank you for confirming <3 The article made me question whether my understanding was correct.
The article from
The Guardian does not deal with people from Northern Ireland being ineligible for Irish citizenship. Quite the reverse. It addresses a certain group of people who were born in the north, but exclusively want to be Irish nationals and not U.K. nationals. Many of these individuals want to continue living and working in the U.K. after Brexit - which has caused headaches.
People who do not live in Northern Ireland or the rest of the U.K. will not be impacted by this situation, which exists due to incongruities between treaty obligations and U.K. domestic law. Those NI born people who simply acquired both the British and Irish passports will likewise be unaffected. The problem will be for people who, on principle, insist on being exclusively Irish, yet continue to live / work in Northern Ireland or the rest of the U.K.
I would assume that very few to no users of the forum will be influenced by this. From all the posts I have read, everyone seems delighted at the prospect of holding two passports. Personally, I would take any extra passport that was offered to me, as long as it did not come with citizenship based taxation or the requirement to renounce other nationalities.