Ireland's Refugee Policy cont. Please read OP before posting

Of course, the hapless and unfortunate 19yo lad from Leitrim who happened to mislay his Irish passport while on the sesh in Santa Ponza could rock down to the local Majorcan car-boot sale and pick up an Irish passport for a €5, stuff it down the jax of the plane on the way home and waltz through immigration control - justifying it so because he hadn't the €110 to fork out on top of the change of flights charges. Totally legit.

All thread bans on the current affairs forum were cleared about 2 months ago with a new warning system in place.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058368026/new-rules-for-the-ca-forum#latest

Ballaghadreen is a poster child town for the refugee industry. No protests whatsoever as more and more refugees were sent there.

Nowhere left to rent and rents double, people living nearby start avoiding the town , businesses close.

On the other hand they get that delicious diversity n even a mosque or two!

Will we see 'white flight' from ballaghadreen as the locals abandon it?!

Fianna fail n Fianna gael probably top the polls in a month or two anyway, so all good!

You should read my post again.

Posters here seem to think Irish people need to have a passport to enter their own country. They do not.

Private companies can make any rules they wish.

“All passengers are required to pass through customs and immigration controls. Immigration and border controls at Dublin Airport are fully maintained by the Border Management Unit (BMU), which is under the directorship of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of the Department of Justice and Equality”

It is really amazing that some posters here believe that this is not the case and that there are special queues where Irish people are just waved through

It's amazing that some posters think Irish citizens have to produce passports to enter their own country!

Last time I went through passport control in Dublin airport (was a birthday trip away), I produced my Irish passport and obviously the officer looked at it closely enough as he commented that he hoped I had a nice birthday trip.

So was there a way I could’ve avoided going through passport control and not have to produce my passport anywhere at arrivals? If I happen to have lost my passport between boarding the flight and reaching passport control, what would’ve happened?

Not trying to catch anyone out here, just genuinely curious how it works.

Most people will show some kind of id as airline companies have different rules for travelling.

They won't detain you, of course not.

All of the comments regarding passport checks and immigration checks entering Ireland are moot.

I travel every day back and forth between NI and RoI.

I cross the "border" at dozens of points from monaghan to Donegal ( which clearly many of the posters here have never done). There is no " border". The only way you realise you've entered another country is the difference in roadsigns and the ubiquitous Vodafone text. That's it.

I can drive to Belfast Airport, pick up a car full of people hailing from anywhere in the world, and drive them to the centre of any town or village in the country and drop them off on their merry way.

Who's monitoring my journey?

Absolutely nobody. Ever.

In 6 years of cross border driving I've been stopped twice, and both times it was the RSA/Customs dipping for diesel.

So yes, anybody can enter the Republic of Ireland at any time, with complete impunity, by coming through the North.

The the big, fat, obvious elephant in the room and no-one is paying attention.

You are making the mistake of dealing with bad faith actors here.

The reason why some are insisting on focusing in on this passport issue is so that they can derail the thread and the discussion.

"I can't believe that some people think Irish citizens need Passports to enter their own country!"#

Said knowing full well that Irish citizens do need to produce ID to enter the country. It's being pedantic in order to sidetrack the discussion. "I said no HomerS, we're allowed to have one. I said they don't need PASSPORTS, I never said anything about ID!"

I wish they would just get to the point and present their real argument. Basically, if you don't have a problem with Irish people just coming and going as they please, since we don't even need passports to enter, then it's very very curious that you would have a problem with all these other people from who knows where showing up without passports, you racist!

The average Irish person will use their passport when travelling. Accordingly, their passport will be checked at the boarding gate on both outbound and inbound flights and checked when they arrive back in Ireland. Now, when re-entering Ireland they could have used their drivers license instead, if they wanted, but in general the vast majority will show their passport and assume that this was the procedure without questioning it.

Quite how this relates to people boarding a flight to Dublin and "losing" their ID, whether that be passport or otherwise, and then being fast-tracked to all the lovely state benefits that we taxpayers foot the bill for is a mystery to me.

This entire performance, spanning a couple of pages now, is put on for the sole reason of avoiding the elephant in the room which is Irelands unsustainable refugee policy.

Irish citizens do not need a passport to enter Ireland. How can they tell who is Irish and who is not ? Can you just say it? Do they request ID ? What type is acceptable?
Can you please explain how this works.

• A valid National Identity Card is required . Howver as to your post above that claims they dont need a psssport .
• You seem to have backtracked on your claim as to a later post .
• '' however, some carriers/airlines require a passport as proof of identification. ''

I would certainly not listen to any advice you try to peddle . A photo ID is required .

https://www.irishferries.com/ie-en/frequently-asked-questions/top-10-faqs/passports-identification/

https://www.aerlingus.com/prepare/passports-and-visas/travel-to-from-britain/

https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-ie/articles/12889174472721-What-do-I-need-to-check-in