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    don't be that person
    Public reminded to check that passports are in date before making travel plans
    27 Dec 2024
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    Courts
    American man (73) who applied for passports in names of deceased babies jailed for 27 months
    22 Apr 2024
    Courts
    Man gets suspended term for giving his birth cert to another man who applied for fake passport
    22 Jan 2024
    redesign
    Belfast City Council to request that new Irish passport design includes imagery from the North
    Updated 13 Oct 2023
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    Court
    Gardaí yet to identify man accused of using passports in names of babies who died in 1950s
    10 Oct 2023
    Cork
    Gardaí trying to establish identity of man arrested with birth certificate of dead baby
    19 Sep 2023
    scott knight
    Suspended jail sentence for man who tried to get passport under a fake name
    1 Dec 2022
    How's the form?
    Passport Office to increase staff and tweak child application process in response to surge
    2 Jun 2022
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    Passports
    Almost 60,000 children's passport applications remain outstanding, says Dept of Foreign Affairs
    31 May 2022
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    passport delays
    Passport Express renamed Post Passport ‘to better reflect slower turnaround time’
    Updated 25 May 2022
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    Iran
    Detained British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe gets passport back
    15 Mar 2022
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    Gender neutral passport
    US introduces gender neutral option for passports
    27 Oct 2021
    High Court
    High Court challenge brought over passport for boy born through surrogacy abroad
    7 Sep 2020
    problems
    Ronaldinho released from Paraguay detention after five months
    24 Aug 2020
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    travel abroad
    Processing of online passport applications will resume next week
    3 Jun 2020
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    Record Breaking
    It's been another 'bumper' year for Irish passport applications, up 7% on 2018
    27 Dec 2019
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    DUP
    FactCheck: Did Arlene Foster bring an Irish passport to the polling station?
    13 Dec 2019
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    Passport Service
    Passport Service 'closing down avenues' of fraud with over 300 passports revoked since 2016
    5 Oct 2019
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    Passport Office
    Making PSC mandatory for all passport applications would have meant 'significantly' longer waiting times
    24 Sep 2019
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    Translink
    Cross-border travellers face 'racial profiling', says human rights group
    19 Sep 2019
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    Travel plans
    More than 230,000 people have applied for Irish passports so far this year
    16 Mar 2019
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    Citizen Roux
    'I'm an Irish citizen now... I felt I had been accepted a long time ago'
    21 Feb 2019
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    Travelling
    Lose a passport abroad? Getting temporary documents will now be easier
    20 Jan 2019
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    fast-tracking
    Leas Ceann Comhairle makes 'no apologies' for assisting constituents to get passports
    8 Jan 2019
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    EU passports
    The post-Brexit Irish passport boom in Britain is not slowing down
    31 Dec 2018
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    better faster stronger
    Renewing your passport online is now 'faster, easier' and €5 cheaper
    28 Nov 2018
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    Complaints
    Lost documents and damaged marriage certs: The things that get people angry at the Passport Office
    21 Oct 2018
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    Brexit
    Number of British descendents of WWII refugees applying for German passports has soared
    19 Oct 2018
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    Passport Office
    Parents to be able to renew their children's passports online by end of the year
    13 Oct 2018
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    Frustrated
    'I am not happy about this situation' - Chelsea boss Sarri says Willian's late return is 'strange'
    2 Aug 2018
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    Holiday Plans
    A missed wedding and missed phone calls: Passport Office apologises for delays
    21 Jun 2018
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    Logjam
    People urged to renew their passports online as seasonal surge leads to significant delays
    8 Jun 2018
    36
    Consumer
    Dublin dad says family holiday in jeopardy due to 'misinformation' and delays getting baby's passport
    10 Apr 2018
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    Jet Setting
    70,000 passport applications outstanding - and staff numbers have almost doubled to handle backlog
    31 Mar 2018
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    fear
    Dozens of Venezuelans 'stranded in Ireland' as Maduro's government fails to issue new passports
    13 Jan 2018
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    record year
    20% of Irish passports issued this year were for people in Northern Ireland and Great Britain
    29 Dec 2017
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    factcheck
    FactCheck: Was the burgundy passport 'enforced' on Britain when it joined the EU?
    22 Dec 2017
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    Late Late Show
    Ibrahim Halawa: I didn't rip up my passport and I don't support Muslim Brotherhood
    3 Nov 2017
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    tangled up in red
    'Have you tried actually applying for something with the Public Services Card? It's a painful experience'
    Cianan Brennan
    21 Oct 2017
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    citizenship
    An Irish woman in a same-sex marriage has two little girls - but only one can get an Irish passport
    10 Oct 2017
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