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

I live on the island of Ireland married an Irish man have Irish children but I was born in England. I’ve been married 25 years and lived here 33 years. I really want an Irish passport more because I’ve lived here longer than there! Deffo not for the airport queues as I’m disabled and get through anyway. Voted remain I have a very curious mind and have studied Irish history. My DH still says they’ll make me drink a pint of Guinness and dance a jig before they’ll let me in!!

Again, spectacularly missing the point.

Before Brexshit, all UK citizens were entitled to EU passports and all the freedoms they brought. Because they were UK citizens and part of the EU.

Brexshitters voted to remove that right. And yet those getting the Irish passport after having voted Brexshit get to retain the very freedoms they sought to deny others.

How many would have applied for the Irish passport if Brexshit hadn’t happened?

You are indeed talking bollocks, there is no such thing as EU citizenship rights when a country democratically votes to leave the EU as they are no longer in the EU. Hope this helps.

This is bloody ridiculous.

If someone is entitled to citizenship, they are entitled to citizenship.

Their politics are irrelevant.

Surely if she's now an Irish passport holder, then the grandchildren will now be eligible for one too now?

You are indeed talking bollocks. There is no such thing as "Tory rights" or "Labour rights". However, there is such a thing as EU citizenship rights. I had them, I made use of them by living and working in the Netherlands, and I lost them without my consent through no fault of my own.

Well of course it's not enforceable but god it is annoying,definitely call them out on it.
I know several people who have applied for Irish passports since brexit. Think Id read there's been a huge uptake in people applying ,statistically im sure many of them also voted for brexit, infuriating!

The link once again for anyone wondering about their eligibility for Irish citizenship.
If you do apply, your ancestors would be delighted and very proud of you!
Good luck!
https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/citizenship/

Have you heard of radical acceptance therapy? Screaming, shrieking and wailing about something that happened years and years ago and which you have no control over at all is not good for you.

It is our fucking business. They ruined my business, ,they ruined my kids chance to work abroad and my plans to live abroad. They fucked our economy. They made the small boats happen. They encouraged the rhetoric around immigration to be vile. We are allowed to think fuck you to these small minded hypocrites.

Voting against the Tories takes Tory rights away from Tory voters who disagree entirely with Labour policies.

So you then deserve to have your democratic rights stripped from you.

This is exactly and precisely the analogy you tried to make.

And it's bollocks, obviously.

You can't take away someone's eligibility to apply for an EU passport based on their voting for Brexit , but I have nothing but contempt for someone who does so.

They voted to take rights from other people and keep them for themselves. It's a bit disingenuous to describe that as "someone votes a way you don't like". We're not talking about five years of Labour when you would have preferred the Conservatives (or vice versa). This is permanent and will limit some people's opportunities in life.

In my opinion, this view and attitude is more worrying and concerning than the hypocrisy of voting for Brexit and then applying for an Irish passport.

I strongly disagree. But don't worry, the Brexiteers have got their way and there's nothing that people like me can do about it.

These people who wish to take away others democratic rights for daring to disagree with them are frighteningly malicious, spiteful and frankly unhinged.

Nope I asked if she called her friend a fucking hypocrite. "You call your "friends" fucking hypocrites?" with a question mark is a question. And asked if she was a fucking hypocrite.

And then I gave my assumption of her answer which would be her lie that she is super edgy and cool and abused that person to her face.

So, here you go "You call your friends of friends a fucking hypocrite to their face? Or are you a fucking hypocrite" - assumed answer which I will preempt "Oh no, I am super edgy and cool and absolutely did abuse the friend of a friend to her face" 😅😂😆

Like I said, didn't matter. At all. But YW.

The idea that someone’s political opinions expressed in a democratic vote should impact their civil right to a passport of a country they are a citizen of under that country’s law is really dystopian. The natural corollary is that you could lose your citizenship for voting for a political party that the winning party doesn’t like.

You are so missing the point.

You said she called her friends hypocrites. She didn't.

It's incredibly weird. Such utter tantrum throwing.

yeah, I did. Doesn't matter (at all) but cheers.

So many undemocratic views on this thread. Many of you would make great dictators. If someone votes a way you don't like, you'd strip them of their entitlements.
For people who are so pro-EU and all the freedom that it brings, it's quite ironic that you're espousing views that are calling for a restriction to the democratic right of people to apply for a passport they're entitled to. And all because you don't agree with their views.
In my opinion, this view and attitude is more worrying and concerning than the hypocrisy of voting for Brexit and then applying for an Irish passport.

I pointed it out because you seemingly missed it.

No, this shouldn't be allowed. Brexiteers voted to strip EU citizenship rights from others without their consent, so they shouldn't be able to keep those rights for themselves.

And I'm still angry about the result of the referendum and with people who voted for Brexit.

Oh well that's ok then 😅😂😆 Question remains.