Irish Passport Qualification (lighthearted)

[Happylittlethoughts]

So my Ancestry DNA report says I'm 60% Irish and only 40% Scottish. AIBU to appeal to the Irish Government that this great grounds to qualify for a passport?
Anyone else got special grounds of appeal for another country?

Yes! My granda, Irish parents, sister born in Ireland, spent his childhood in Ireland... born in Scotland, during a 6 month or so period when my great granda was working in Scotland. So no Irish passport for me. It seems so unfair!

@Anycrispsleft - with an Irish grandparent you can apply to be included on the Irish Foreign Birth register and then get a passport. I did

Trying to find out whether we were Irish I discovered that we weren't but that we were Canadian citizens by descent instead.

No recent Irish ancestry I'm afraid! Irish descent on my both of Mum's side but dating to the 1840s Famine !
Hence THE DNA petition 🤣

You basically need to be able to answer all these correctly.

British people applying for Irish passports will now face the following questions;

Q1: Please explain why the 6pm national news is broadcast at exactly one minute after 6pm?

Q2: Sean: "You wouldn't put the kettle on would you?"
Mary: "I will yeah"
Is Mary going to put the kettle on for Sean?

Q3: “Mammy is after going to get the messages.” Explain.

Q4: "Give 5 examples of where/when you can apply the word 'yoke'"

Q5: The immersion. Discuss.

Q6: In the event that you lose your passport, should you
(a) report it lost and apply for a new one
(b) apply for a temporary passport or
(c) pray to St Anthony?

Q7: A local man becomes successful. Discuss the reactions that this may illicit among his neighbours (300 pages or less)

Q8: Where were Miley and Fidelma caught?

Q9: Give 6 examples of how to use 'grand'

Q10: Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye’ is an appropriate way to end a phone conversation, yes or no?

Q11: What does 'put the delph in the press' mean?

Q12: How well should you have known someone to attend their funeral?

Q13: Fill in the blank..."roll it there

Q14: If you living in one part of the country, having grown up in another part of the country - which is 'home' and which is 'home, home'
Supplementary question - What is the difference between going 'out' and going 'out, out'?

Q15: Can you explain where yer man from up above lives ?

Q16: Aoifes leaving cert is next week. What concrete steps can Aoifes grandmother take to ensure her success?

Q17: Bridie: Are you going to take the dog for a walk at all? Dónal: I'll do that now in a minute
When will Dónal take the dog for a walk: -Now -In a minute -Other - please specify.

@Runssometimes You’d get a clip round the ear for leaving the immersion on in our house!

@Notthetune and you’d deserve it

@Runssometimes

Fecking brilliant! The first time I met my wonderful, almost MiL (in Finglas) she told me 'the yoke's in the press'.

Being born and brought up in deepest Lincolnshire I didn't have a clue; the egg is in the paper???

St Antony use to get a lot of prays in our house, for a variety of lost objects!
This really made me laugh!

My aunt is Irish and both my cousins are leaving the UK on their Irish passports ,one to Ireland and one to France,. bastards.

I often say a silent prayer to St Antony when I’ve lost something (and can hear my Irish Grandma telling me to do so even though she’s been dead for 20 years). I’m a very lapsed Catholic. It’s hard-wired

And I’ll definitely be getting Irish passports for my dc once there’s any hope of us travelling again

Sean is not getting any tea, poor Sean.

St Anthony works because it makes you stop for a minute and think instead of frantically scrabbling around.
My Mam's friend says about her son "I'd the windowsill burnt to a cinder getting him through his degree" 😂🤣

Another one - What are "gutties"?

So funny! I will yeah.

Trainers, sneakers

Yep @blubberyboo took me a few years as a "blowin" to realise what people meant

St Anthony. I owe him a few bob.

In the process of researching my family history I have discovered Irish (one generation too far back), French (does not recognise ius sanguinis), a very outing other nationality (only recognises ius sanguinis and not ius solis) which thinks this means that we are a.n. other nationality and that country only recognises some combinations of the above). It is possible that another country recognises, which might be handy, but it is not going to give me EU citizenship.

@eosmum - not even out of his hand.

@Prestissimo

I often say a silent prayer to St Antony when I’ve lost something (and can hear my Irish Grandma telling me to do so even though she’s been dead for 20 years). I’m a very lapsed Catholic. It’s hard-wired

Ah, excellent reminder, I was waiting till my day off Friday to do some tidying up to find my Kindle, but a prayer to St Anthony tonight should do it. Hopefully I can then avoid the tidying.

Also hearing my Irish Granny, also a terribly lapsed Catholic

This guide may be of use for some of the questions above..
www.waterstones.com/book/john-peppers-complete-norn-iron-haunbook/john-pepper/9780862819132

Irish, living in Ireland, never heard of gutties. Just runners around here! Tho my dad called them sandshoes growing up

Is "messages" shopping/groceries because my wee Scottish granny used to say that too (and the cupboard in the hall was the press too, actually she called the hall the lobby.... I'm drifting off into nostalgia).
My great grandfather was born in Pakistan but I don't think I can turn that to my advantage.