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?

Bellinsurge - I've just sent that on to my sister who is married to a Dub - God help her.

@Shuddawuddacudda

Bellinsurge - I've just sent that on to my sister who is married to a Dub - God help her.

She's blessed by the Gods, in that case!

There is a live version of that sketch on their YouTube channel which is also worth a watch. Extra bits with "I seen nuttin " etc

Shuddawuddacudda plates and cups and jugs and stuff - things made out of pottery. Like Delft pottery but not blue and white. At least that's what it is in my family!

Oh wait, your friend was asking you, not you asking on behalf of your friend, sorry!

So, in that case, does it mean the same to you as it does to me?

@shetoshe they are definitely not lax. Both DH and I native Irish. DS born in UK so we applied for an Irish passport when he was a baby. They rejected it as couldn’t contact witness, although witness had no voicemails or anything to show there’d been any attempt. We sent off again, it did get accepted but in the interim we’d applied for, and got DS British passport, 2 weeks total. Took 6 months to get his Irish one, renewal was straightforward but they definitely check things.

Authorities definitely not lax in the days of international terrorism where an Irish passport would be like golddust.

Sadly, the days when my father sent off 5s to the post office for his driving licence, too, are over.

Yes Flavia - I spent many years washing the delph - don't worry.

@Runssometimes ,it's laughable that people think it's easy to get a passport.

@BillywigSting you can get our brown bread and rashers and sausages etc over in the Irish centre shop in Liverpool! They get fresh stock in on a Tuesday I think it's the st Michaels centre

Question for you guys in the know. My friend is English born to an Irish father and Pakistani mother. When applying for his Irish passport will just need his father's birth cert and his own birth cert or will he also need his parents marriage certificate and his mother's birth cert?

Should mention that Ocado do our lovely Denny sausages too.

@Shuddawuddacudda he’ll need to read this. www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/great-britain/passports/how-to-apply-for-a-passport/

Going to a wake of someone you never met and you may even have only met their relative once is difficult for me as a blowin.

I thought wakes and funerals were to say goodbye not hello nice to meet you.

"Skitter" as in "she's a skitter"

And

The "poor wee crater".

Still no idea what these really mean

@whatever1980 i think it’s also viewed as a supportive or respectful gesture to the bereaved. It wouldn’t be uncommon to go to a close colleague’s parent’s funeral for example. At least to the removal if not the wake.

Poor wee crature - poor wee creature.

As for immersion “Where d’ye think this is, Kilroot Power Station??”

@DazzlePaintedBattlePants ages since I heard that. Also just remembered arra hauld yer whist which I heard a lot as a child!

@Shuddawuddacudda , doing it through a male parent requires less paperwork than doing it through a female parent. I used my Mum; Dh used his Dad. I also needed mum's marriage certificate and my own because we changed names. Dh needed just his dad's and his own birth certificate.

And my mum said crayther not crater.

Excellent news Bellinsurge as he doesn't know whether his parents were ever married. His mother left his father when he was very young and changed her name so that he couldn't find them.

[quote Runssometimes]@Shuddawuddacudda he’ll need to read this. www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/great-britain/passports/how-to-apply-for-a-passport/[/quote]
Thanks for the link

A skitter is diarrhoea. It was a 'polite' way of calling your dc a little shite. HTH.
E.g. I've the skitters. Translation: I've diarrhoea.

You look like a millie
Get your togs on
a skitter - a little shit
Hold yer whisht
You're in for a tongin
You wee eejit
Dead on, (wee man)

Skitter/shkitter is kind of hard to define. Basically, a bit of a flight girl/woman, is how I'd know of it being used.