Do you think giving birth in Belfast will become a thing post Brexit?

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Since 2005 a person born on the island of Ireland (including NI) to Irish or British parents has a right to apply for Irish citizenship/a passport. I read an article in the FT yesterday discussing the obstacles UK business travellers would face in a post Brexit word, which ended with this:

"There’s one group that will do well out of this: UK-based EU passport holders, who will be able to advertise themselves, both to British employers and to EU service buyers, as being able to travel unhindered around the bloc. Best-placed of all will be Irish passport holders, who can not only travel in the EU, but live and work freely in the UK too. Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and colonialist, once described being English as “the greatest prize in the lottery of life”. Post-Brexit, it’s the Irish who hold the winning ticket."

If you really really wanted your child to have access to the EU in the future, would you be willing to move to Belfast for your birth so that your child could then claim an Irish Passport?

This is meant as a light-hearted discussion more than anything else, though if anyone from NI could chime in on how difficult it would actually be to do, please do so! Reason for going to Northern Ireland over the Republic is the access to the NHS and an automatic right to be both Irish and British at birth.

New rule: if you can't name 5 traybakes, you can't come here to have your weans.

NI Citizenship test.

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New rule: if you can't name 5 traybakes, you can't come here to have your weans.

NI Citizenship test.

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"There's a three car pile up on the Westlink, and the Peelers are 6 miles away dealing with a punishment beating, how long does it take you to get home in time to see Julian Simmons introduce Corrie?"

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I'm not even looking at the tray bake thread again. I'm not doing it til myself.

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"There's a three car pile up on the Westlink, and the Peelers are 6 miles away dealing with a punishment beating, how long does it take you to get home in time to see Julian Simmons introduce Corrie?"

This is a trick question by the way: You're already home watching the telly 'cause you've got six weans and yer on the dole YEEEOOOOOO

For the entitled English on the thread, here’s your revision for the question in the mock devised by @FedUpWithBriiiiick

“Youse at home with have a different bucket”.

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New rule: if you can't name 5 traybakes, you can't come here to have your weans.

NI Citizenship test.

Name? If you can't make 5 different traybakes you're not a suitable member of society.

Bonus question: how many rounds of sandwiches can you get out of a loaf, and how many loaves do you need for an average sized congregation?

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@mnhq this thread has taken a classic Northern Irish turn. #classic

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New rule: if you can't name 5 traybakes, you can't come here to have your weans.

NI Citizenship test.

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New rule: if you can't name 5 traybakes, you can't come here to have your weans.

🤣

No denying - the craic’s mighty.

I personally wouldn’t travel to Belfast to give birth. Mainly because in the future when things like free entitlement to NHS / government services is being evaluated - I imagine having any Irish place of birth would warrant further checks.

Plus once the political furore calms down and we start getting decent trade deals I imagine British citizens might get better free trade (and movement) deals with high growth countries like the USA / India and SE Asian countries than European countries would as smaller populations tend to get access to special visas that larger populations don’t.

If in the future my son wants an Irish passport he can do it the traditional ways by either moving there or marrying there. I don’t want to hamper his future prospects by deciding for him while things are so uncertain.

@GrumpyHoonMain

I personally wouldn’t travel to Belfast to give birth. Mainly because in the future when things like free entitlement to NHS / government services is being evaluated - I imagine having any Irish place of birth would warrant further checks.

Plus once the political furore calms down and we start getting decent trade deals I imagine British citizens might get better free trade (and movement) deals with high growth countries like the USA / India and SE Asian countries than European countries would as smaller populations tend to get access to special visas that larger populations don’t.

If in the future my son wants an Irish passport he can do it the traditional ways by either moving there or marrying there. I don’t want to hamper his future prospects by deciding for him while things are so uncertain.

You do realise that Belfast is in the UK?

You do realise that Belfast is in the UK?

For now

@BadEyeBri - it may be in the UK but I bet within a year or two people born in NI will need to prove UK residency for all services and some goods periodiocally in the way people of CI and US origin do. Too much scope for financial crime otherwise.

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