to ask if Irish vs U.K. passport makes a difference?

I didn't know that. Only France and Germany have a similar number of embassies to the UK, all of the other EU countries have way fewer. Typical that UK passport holders were paying to assist a whole load of people from other EU countries.

Yes I thought this was the case I applying for my sons now (my mum is irish) and I think their future kids can as long as they have rhe citizenship before they have kids.

Incorrect. They do get it because their father has one. He has it because you were born in Ireland.

to qualify for Irish citizenship, and therefore a passport, one of your parents must be an Irish citizen at the time of your birth.

nothing to do with grandparents. That’s only talked about because if you have a grandparent born in Ireland, your parent is an automatic citizen so you have an Irish citizen parent. No paperwork, they don’t need to even hold a passport.

once you get past that generation if your Irish citizen parent was not born in Ireland, you need to apply to the FBR to register being born to an Irish citizen who was not born in Ireland. It’s a fair amount of paperwork and you need to have the knowledge that you need to do it. Once that is done, you are an Irish citizen, so your kids can then register on the FBR…

so most people, like you, assume you need a grandparent and don’t realise FBR can be passed down indefinitely, as long as each generation registers on the FBR before their own children are born.

Unless they are in NI.

Yep.

Parent born on the island of Ireland - citizen
Grandparent born on the i of I - eligible for FBR.
Parent on FBR at time of birth - eligible for FBR.

This not fully correct. My DDad was born in Ireland so I am automatically a citizen even though I live in the UK. I am registering my DC on the Foreign Births Register so they will get citizenship.
Once my DC are registered (hopefully next month currently an 11 month processing time) then they will be able to register any children they have in the future on the FBR too and pass on their citizenship to them. This only works if someone is on the FBR before they have children i.e. they have claimed citizenship prior to having children. You can’t pass on a citizenship you didn’t hold at the time of birth because you hadn’t yet claimed it.

If you look at the Irish citizenship application site one option is that your parent is on the FBR. You can pass Irish citizenship down indefinitely provided you register on the FBR before having children.

Oh interesting. Thank you. I might do a hunt myself then, as, like a lot of people, I have an Irish granny. But she moved to Australia for a few years as a baby, then came back to England as her father signed up to fight in WW1.

If they have emigrated to Ireland, tell them to apply for an Irish one. They will not be entitled to a UK passport.

No one is saying it is! But the world is full of people born in on country and living a life in another.

No. Birth records were not affected by that fire.

An Irish /eu passport allows you to live and work in more countries than a uk one.

but why would they be able to get a uk one?

if they have Irish citizenship then it’s probably good to get a passport incase they introduce a rule like the uk did requiring uk citizens to enter the uk on British (or Irish) passports.

I’ve got both (and an Aussie one). As others have pointed out the Irish passport is better than the UK one since Brexit. But you can’t just rock up and get either one, you have to be entitled to it.

No such thing as an English passport.

And the UK is a non EU country.

It's really not that easy and can cost a lot of money. You don't just arrive and get the right to a passport!!

If they immigrated to Ireland (presumably legally), they can apply for Irish after 5 years

Per Google
To become an Irish citizen through naturalisation, you typically need to live in Ireland legally for 5 years (60 months) out of the last 9 years

If non European, and living in Ireland, in what way would they be entitled to UK passport?

A great grandparent is not going to get them anywhere.. I have an Irish passport because my parents are Irish, my ds has Irish grandparents therefore he is entitled to an Irish passport but we are in the process of waiting for his Irish citizenship through the foreign birth register it appears to take quite a while.

Agree.

And they throw an absolute britfit when it’s pointed out.

They need to become Irish citizens to get an Irish passport

In the North of Ireland we can carry both , without having to find any ancestory and my Neice and Nephew, who are grandchildren of Irish Grandparents , keep all their passports up to date - UK, Australian and Irish

When they come over to Europe they travel on their Irish passports so there's no visas or set amount of time to stay

Unless they are going to be frequent visitors to the EU , requiring 30 day visits in a rolling 90 days , there's no real need

I’m flabbergasted at someone rocking up to Ireland from a non eu country and thinking their only problem with getting a passport is choosing between an Irish or an English one

as to getting Irish citizenship, you can aquire this once you have lived in Ireland for 5 years. (I think). I just applied after living here for over 20 years, and it was quite straighforward to apply. (although easier for EU/UK citizens than people from other countries)

Student visas to the USA are cheaper with a UK passport than an Irish passport.

No not at all. It is possible to hold dual citizenship. I have both passports as I was born in Northern Ireland. At the moment the Irish passport has the edge but who knows what will happen in the future.
@Clavinova Irish passport holders can claim assistance at any EU embassy.

Irish is the stronger passport without doubt OP so if they have a way of getting this then it will definitely stand to them more than a British one.

Lots of misinformation here. Having an Irish passport in itself doesn’t mean you can pass it on to your kids. No further back than a grandparent needs to have actually been born in Ireland. My grandchildren can get Irish passports because I was born in Ireland, they don’t get it because their father has one.

I’m sure its been said but an Irish great grandparent doesn’t count.