Why no citizenship test?

A sizeable portion of Irish born people would probably fail too.

How many variations of spuds should you server with the Christmas dinner?

What is the best way to get badly sun burnt while only getting 4 sunny days a year?

Will Mayo every win Sam again?

Who are Zig and Zag?

How much money should you stick in a wedding card for two guests?

True or False: It is right and proper to refer to the British as Tans?

Who coined the phrase "Don't make unnecessary journeys"?

What parish are you from?

Really? You know this how?

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/irish_citizenship/becoming_an_irish_citizen_through_naturalisation.html :

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You must have lived in the State for a certain length of time. The specific requirements are that you:

• Have a period of 365 days* (1 year) continuous reckonable residence in the State immediately before the date of your application for naturalisation and
• During the 8 years before that, have had a total reckonable residence in the State of 1,460 days* (4 years)

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Reckonable residence for people who have no Irish spouse or ancestors basically means working full time and paying taxes for 5 of the last 8 years.

Applicants must of 'good character' and have to provide police reports from countries they lived previously.

There is no language check. It's a pity actually, why should only the people born in Ireland endure An Gaeilge in school ;)

Also, no paupers need apply, the application process fees total €1125.

I agree that a test is superfluous. Personally and this is just my personal opinion, demonstrable evidence of five years' of economic self-sufficiency throughout the last eight, is too loose. I would bump this to six.

My other points stand. If you are applying to naturalize as Irish, it's reasonable to enforce minimum standards around language acquisition and (lack of) criminality.

Most Canadians don’t know their country as well as they may think, a new poll suggests.The survey, released in time for Canada Day, asked a random sample of 1,645 voters 10 questions from the study guide given to those looking to become Canadian citizens.The results weren’t great. Only 12 per cent of respondents got eight or more correct answers, the threshold to pass the test. The average score was five out of 10.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/nearly-9-in-10-canadians-would-fail-the-citizenship-test-poll-1.4489704

There is turmoil in the strange world of citizenship tests. The UK is planning to revise its test for would-be Britons, adding questions on crucial issues such as the life of the poet Robert Browning. In France’s test, introduced this month, applicants must obviously know about Brigitte Bardot. Meanwhile a recent survey by Xavier University found that more than one-third of Americans would fail their own country’s naturalisation test. Only 8 per cent could name even one author of the Federalist Papers. And Denmark is quietly scrapping its test.

https://www.ft.com/content/d7489dc2-caea-11e1-8872-00144feabdc0

Maybe get Irish born and who have lived here their entire life to do it also, as quite a number of Irish people know **** all about the country, and also maybe get them to take in Irish.

Again, how is that relevant to the naturalization process?

Is it really too much to ask a potential new citizen of the state know simple things like there are 4 provinces, Micheal Martin is the Taoiseach, we gained our independence in 1922 etc?

Must be Tayto crisp packets though. Don’t imply we have no standards at all !

Sure the government are going to give citizenship to all the illegals who broke the law here by over staying so I doubt a test is high on their list of things to do.

Free houses and money for all who turn up here and no chance of being sent back thanks to Roddy O Gorman