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.

It's a good thing I've emailed Simon Covney tonight with my concerns and sent him a screenshot of what she stated, this can be shut down without impacting the good Friday agreement, by the irish government tweeking the legislation slightly to make reference to British citizen parents born in Northern Ireland or other British Citizens who have habitually resided in Northern Ireland or the State for 3 years.

It's ridiculous, especially when Irish citizens voted in 2005 to stop this kind of thing, who mabey didn't fully realise that people from GB would be intent on doing the exact same thing that they originally voted against.

Sorry, only read first page of thread but as someone born and raised in Belfast we can choose to have either British or Irish citizenship (or both). Nothing has changed in that respect and there would be absolute uproar if it did as its pretty split down the middle here people who consider themselves to irish and those who see themselves as British. That won't be changing any time soon.

she's from England though not Northern Ireland, the GFA only applies to a person born in NI who is British, not someone from London who is British, It will be changed because if no one else is allowed birthright citizenship for their kids why should people from England, Scotland or Wales be allowed to abuse the system !

Nothing to do with the good Friday agreement that doesn't apply to someone from outside Northern Ireland.

it won't be changed for anyone in Northern Ireland however.