Should people who voted for Brexit be allowed to apply for an Irish Passport?

I'd settle for a klaxon going off as they go through passport control.

I know a lot about world politics.

My Mum voted for Brexit and then moved abroad to an EU country later the same year! She voted based on immigration and 'not wanting to bow down to the EU'.
So she became an immigrant herself, in an EU country.

DH and I were already living in an EU country and were allowed to vote, remain of course.
As soon as the results were out, DH applied for his Irish passport and I applied for, and later received citizenship in our adopted country.

If we talk purely about travel Uk citizens have limited amount fo travel days. So for a holiday few weeks a year, no difference. But if you're a pensioner that wants to stay in eu longer, then with Irish passport you don't have to worry about overstaying.

Alternatively , they could be issued a special new Brexit Irish passport. Only valid for travel to places that voted Leave. Like Lincolnshire or Benidorm. I will shortly be producing them with my aptly named John Bull Printing Set.

Just like Farage, they make travel and living abroad hard for everyone else while enjoying dual nationality. Personally, I think everyone who voted for Brexit should have their heads paraded on sticks. Small-minded, deluded sheep have ruined our country for generations.

I will take that as you know very little about world politics then

It gives you many of the freedoms that most of us lost due to Brexit.
I’m really thankful that my DCs have Irish passports and can go to life and work and travel freely within the EU. I’m furious that my rights were taken away.
Of course it’s impossible to stop Brexiteers from claiming citizenship that they are entitled to. But morally it’s fucking disgusting and they should be ashamed of themselves.

I don't think anyone actually thinks that leave voters should be denied Irish passports, it just seems to be hypocritical to be seeking one out now, after many years of being entitled to one, just because it is now more convenient to have it.

So do these people think Ireland should leave the EU.? I suggest you tell them there is a movement in Ireland to leave the EU - wind them up a little.

I do feel lucky that my kids and I (Irish born) have Irish passports. I didn't vote for Brexit.

Because DURR the British get to tell the Irish what to do, right?!?

sorry, slipped into 1921 there

@shouldicontactthisperson no problem 😊

Why on earth should the Irish passport office be given the results of a British referendum?

I dont think it is a price worth paying at times. The public are idiots.

As others have said its hypocritical and should be called out.

Ah I see, thank you

Béidh céad fáilte sa bhaile romhat. You will be very welcome.

The ghastly Ian Paisley Jr , who loathes Ireland , has an Irish passport. @MissyB1 is Irish in the spirit not just the letter of the law.

I met a woman at a night market in the village my parents live in France. Both her and her husband voted for Brexit. She had lived in France for 12 years. Voted Leave because of, in her words, "all the foreigners in Britain." She could and would not admit to also being a foreigner in France. No, no, she was an expat, don't you know.

We got onto the subject because I was talking about how my parents had moved to France in their mid fifties and I really wished I could do the same. She had no interest in the fact that her vote made that very much more difficult for me and people like me. She was the epitome of "I'm alright Jack" and as we left I was still telling her she was an hypocritical economic migrant - unlike my dad who actually took French citizenship after moving there.

I'm genuinely so bitter about this that I'd happily make it law to send back every single "expat" who voted to "protect Britain from foreigners" whilst living the dream in France, Spain, Portugal or wherever. Don't like foreigners? Don't become one.

I appreciate that this makes me unreasonable. I feel no shame.

They all have separate queues in the EU airports we have been since then, Italy, Spain, Spanish islands, France, lots of them in different parts of those countries, where have you been?

Good point @Berlinlover No, they should not IMHO. Traitors.

This infuriated me when a friend in her 50s, was smuggly discussing having got an Irish passport (through father). She had been very pro Brexit, anti immigrant and was full of glee when Johnson won 2019 election so 'Brexit would get done'.
I felt it was very insensitive for her to be almost boasting about her Irish (EU) passport, when she knew I had campaigned for remain. I deliberately haven't fallen out with anyone else over Brexit, biting my tongue on occasions, but the unfairness of this incensed me. Where is my EU passport?

The point is that it confers free movement so Irish passport holders can live and work in the EU whereas Brexit caused us to lose those rights. It’s not just about a queue at the airport.

Of course what other sanctions do you want

the feeedom of having a democracy means the public sometimes make rubbish choices it’s a price worth paying

Not really, it means you have free movement around the EU though (working/ living/ studying)

Does it actually make travelling any easier though?

I have both Irish and UK passports and have travelled to various countries since Brexit. I can’t think of an airport that actually had separate queues - most were “EU and UK” or something to that effect.