No passport check entering UK

[TrollMummy]

Is anyone else concerned about the fact that when you travel from Ireland to the U.K. by air there aren't passport checks on arrival you just zip straight through an bypass everything. I understand about the common travel area but this seems a bit lax.

scottish sorry to destroy your theory but there are internal flights in Ireland - Dublin to Cork, Shannon, Kerry.....and others

So long since I've taken one though i don't know how you exit.

1bighappyfamily

Fair enough. I had only checked a couple of places but can see there are direct flights to Donegal and Shannon. Cork seemed to be via outside Ireland.

Presumably these flights are not passport controlled so must exit via a different part of the airport (a different terminal maybe) so part of my theory may still stand. Arrivals from the UK may have come in from outside the UK via connecting flights so havent been through a passport control until they hit Dublin? Also, I know Edinburgh has (or had) different domestic and international arrivals so passengers are treated differently (when I fly to Edinburgh we come out at the domestic arrivals bit).

hat was another one, someone said Eire was wrong, although I always put that on letters and they usually arrive

It is wrong, unless you are speaking/writing in Irish!