Passport expired - travelling Saturday

[inarightstatetonight]

Sorry, posting here for traffic. NC as have a number of people now know about this situation.

Can anyone advise?

My dc's passport expired last year - I thought it was this year and it was only when I was checking in online with airline that I realised.

We're planning to travel to Southern Ireland with Ryanair on Saturday. It seems that it's not possible to renew a child's passport in a day and that Ryanair insists on passports for all travellers.

A few people have told me that they've renewed child passports in recent years at a premium, one day appointment, but everything i've read online suggests that this isn't possible.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? I'll call the passport office first thing, but I'm not holding out much hope.

TIA

[Allwayslookingforanswers]

Have a lovely holiday op, wherever the feck ye are going!

[FatAli]

My parents were born in Ireland. They consider themselves British and call the non Northern bit Southern Ireland and couldn't really give a shit about the semantics.

[MrsMook]

Can I claim Skibbereen is Southern Ireland? DH won't care, and he's a local

[DrinkGirlsFeck]

Oh dear. I am British, and Irish. Born in the southern part of Northern Ireland. Which is on the island called Ireland. And further south than parts of the country sometimes referred to as Southern Ireland. Sometimes, when I go home, I say I'm going to Northern Ireland. And sometimes to Ireland. Because I can. And partly because who, really, gives a flying fuck whether I'm flying to Belfast or Dublin? And which side of a border my house is?

Op. I hope you've got it sorted.

[Norland]

Passport not required:

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/ireland/entry-requirements

I used to travel there about 30 times a year in the 90s; some of the Dubbs were as opinionated as madreloco but everybody else was great.

Whatever you, don't refer to Dhub Linn as Blackpool, that would be anglicising an Irish name and that would never do. If you get served a pint of stout with a shamrock in the froth, leave the establishment immediately.

If you're not talking to madreloco you can have an interesting chat about Ireland being one of 6,000+ islands in the British Isles (as named by the Romans) and that you can't possibly be a West Brit, as every native of the aforementioned 6,000+ islands is by definition British and those living in Ireland are somewhat more westerley than somebody living on the island of Great Britain.

If your co-conversant gets a tad shirty, you could then point out that at no time have you personally, ever had the power to influence political decisions over the previous centuries (including when the Pope of the Church of Rome ordered the recently crowned king of England - a good catholic apparently - to invade Ireland)

After that you can have a chinwag about the 'fifths'

It's a great place by and large, as is France; just has some of the same problems as France.

Oh, when my son lost his passport days before our skiing trip a few years ago, I got a company in Portsmouth to sort out a same-day replacement (cost me £200 though) and never fly Ryanair. Any other airline, you wouldn't be having this issue.

[Floggingmolly]

Bet you're half regretting your destination now, op... When you get there, in real life, nobody will give a shit what you call the place. Have fun

[SallyMcgally]

QOD I lived in Ireland for 15 years on Cork/Kerry border and loads of the Irish there referred to living in Southern Ireland as opposed to Northern Ireland. It's only ever on mumsnet that I've seen it arouse strong feeling, which it does quite often. But madreloco's posts are really unnecessarily rude.

[FurryDogMother]

I wouldn't call Donegal the 'West', it's the north west, as is Mayo (where I live). Galway is the west. Mayo is, at a pinch, the 'Wesht' but Donegal? That's pushing it :) I have no idea how PC it is, but when I say I live in Ireland, and people ask me 'north or south?', I reply ' 'The Republic' and that tends to answer the question to everyone's satisfaction. Parts of Donegal are further north than parts of the North, which makes 'Southern Ireland' inaccurate, to say the least.

You could call it the Emerald Isle if paddywhackery is your thing, but I wouldn't recommend it . People will think you're American :)

[Songlark]

Can we call it The Emerald Isle?

[sonjadog]

Obvously, the way to avoid all this Ireland name-contention, is to call it The Free State.

[QOD]

My.sister in law is from Tipperary and refers to going to their holiday home there as "going over to Southern Ireland"
I just know it's a long way to Tipperary

[nauticant]

This is the funniest thing I've read on MN today:

However if you engage your brain before you type, you'd realise that is immaterial to the actual issue.

OP: Stop derailing this Ireland thread with passport talk!

[Trumpity]

It's not Northern Ireland.

It's Norn Iron.

[inarightstatetonight]

Thanks for your help all.

I'm going to change back to my usual username so will be incognito, but once again MN has proved a source of huge support, information and humour in a (self-inflicted) stressful situation.

[badtime]

English !

[cestlavielife]

www.aferry.co.uk/news/irish_ferries_no_passport_required_on_sea_crossings_to_britain-19696234.htm

[gabsdot45]

Badtime, I feel your pain. I was born in Belfast although I've lived in Dublin for nearly all my life. I am eligible to use a British passport or an Irish passport.
I once had a huge row with my SIL who insisted that I was English........
Talk about needing to look at a map.

[DuelingFanjo]

"You might call Donegal the West, but its right up there at the North"

I used to live in Donegal. It's the West.

[inarightstatetonight]

knittingdad*, DH suggested exactly that when I just told him how this thread was panning out...

Thanks for your help. Ferry and an expensive lesson learned it is.

[SoupDragon]

and I am sniggering at you complaining about "basic manners" whilst failing to demonstrate any yourself.

[SoupDragon]

For the hard of thinking: countries have things we call NAMES. The NAME of the COUNTRY being discussed here is IRELAND. We don't name the landmasses we visit, we don't assign them our own makey-uppey names based on our poor grasp of geography

Actually, everyone uses makey uppy names. Even you. Spain, Norway, Germany.... Germany bears no resemblance to Deutschland at all for example.

[badtime]

Incidentally, I am getting more and more pissed off with the fact that you keep essentially saying that I am not from Ireland. As a person from Co. Antrim, I am just as Irish as someone from Cork or Kerry.

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, and it is extremely offensive of you to state otherwise. The fact that the country is also called Ireland does not in any way detract from this.