Age card question?

Wolfbrand Morro · 06-04-2011 11:42PM #1

Sorry if this is the totally wrong place to put this thread but...

I have recently sent off my passport to get a new one and something went wrong so I now have to wait 8 weeks for it. Now I just turned 18 and have no form of ID. Not fun.

But I'm just after getting my age card form in the post and I was over the moon initially until I read that you need a birth cert or passport and one other form of ID. I have the birth cert but will I need to wait for the passport or does other forms of ID include stuff like bank cards and school IDs?

kirving · 06-04-2011 11:45PM

You won't be going out for a while anyway!

I'm failry sure you need something more than a bank card tbh, although give it a try anyway and see what they say.

starbelgrade · 06-04-2011 11:45PM

There's probably an answer to this question.

El Weirdo · 06-04-2011 11:46PM

Lol. I can walk into a pub, ask for a pint and I get it. It's great being old.

Mark200 · 06-04-2011 11:48PM

Student card should do as form of ID.

brembo26 · 06-04-2011 11:50PM

I used my drivers licence.

Have you any other form of photo I.D? From what i can tell you need a photo I.D to get a photo I.D :P

Blackdragon · 06-04-2011 11:51PM

Wolfbrand Morro wrote: »

Sorry if this is the totally wrong place to put this thread but...

I have recently sent off my passport to get a new one and something went wrong so I now have to wait 8 weeks for it. Now I just turned 18 and have no form of ID. Not fun.

But I'm just after getting my age card form in the post and I was over the moon initially until I read that you need a birth cert or passport and one other form of ID. I have the birth cert but will I need to wait for the passport or does other forms of ID include stuff like bank cards and school IDs?

PPS card should do the trick - did for me anyway

OPENROAD · 06-04-2011 11:51PM

Pubs really should be 21+ imo

06-04-2011 11:52PM

You'll have to wait pretty much 8 weeks for your age card too

brembo26 · 06-04-2011 11:54PM

Deleted User wrote: »

You'll have to wait pretty much 8 weeks for your age card too

I only waited a full week for mine from when i dropped the form into the garda station. This is only a month ago.

parmaviolet · 06-04-2011 11:54PM

I got mine with my birth cert and a student card a few months ago. Anything with a photo would probably be ok

geetar · 06-04-2011 11:54PM

if you have your garda age card, why do you need other i.d's? i must not understand this at all?

06-04-2011 11:56PM

brembo26 wrote: »

I only waited a full week for mine from when i dropped the form into the garda station. This is only a month ago.

I waited two months, just got it last week (I'm waaaaaay too old to need one but for some unknown reason I get asked for ID a lot

) maybe my garda person didn't send it on for ages.

Wolfbrand Morro · 06-04-2011 11:56PM

Blackdragon wrote: »

PPS card should do the trick - did for me anyway

Yes! That is the kinda answer I am looking for! Thank you muchly!

@geetar I said Age card form lol

@kevin Irving yeah I guessed as such but thats why I'm here.

ardinn · 06-04-2011 11:57PM

An age card is the ONLY form of identification legally allowed now in public houses, Even passports/ drivers Licences will get the publican into bother should something arrise. Although they are usually accepted, legally, an age card MUST be produced.

maglite · 06-04-2011 11:58PM

https://www.agecard.ie/terms.html

You must have either a Birth Certificate, Passport or GNIB Card to apply for an Age Card

brembo26 · 06-04-2011 11:59PM

Deleted User wrote: »

maybe my garda person didn't send it on for ages.

probably :P they make a balls of the picture too, they brightened mine up so much you can hardly make me out in it!

Wolfbrand Morro · 07-04-2011 12:05AM

maglite wrote: »

https://www.agecard.ie/terms.html

You must have either a Birth Certificate, Passport or GNIB Card to apply for an Age Card

There's alot of people here pointing out the obvious. I already said I have a birth cert but you also need another form of identification

Shane St. · 07-04-2011 12:08AM

applied today. lost my passport twice not risking using it on nights out anymore. better get here quick

brembo26 · 07-04-2011 12:08AM

Wolfbrand Morro wrote: »

There's alot of people here pointing out the obvious. I already said I have a birth cert but you also need another form of identification

have you not got any other form of photo I.D? anything at all?

Wolfe Tone · 07-04-2011 12:09AM

Wolfbrand Morro wrote: »

Sorry if this is the totally wrong place to put this thread but...

I have recently sent off my passport to get a new one and something went wrong so I now have to wait 8 weeks for it. Now I just turned 18 and have no form of ID. Not fun.

But I'm just after getting my age card form in the post and I was over the moon initially until I read that you need a birth cert or passport and one other form of ID. I have the birth cert but will I need to wait for the passport or does other forms of ID include stuff like bank cards and school IDs?

Made that mistake myself recently, Passport and Birth cert is what you need.

College id etc is useless.

Wolfbrand Morro · 07-04-2011 12:09AM

brembo26 wrote: »

have you not got any other form of photo I.D? anything at all?

I have a secondary school ID and the picture is really badly taken. As I only turned 18 at the start of april I have yet to accumulate a variety of photo ids

Wolfe Tone · 07-04-2011 12:12AM

Wolfbrand Morro wrote: »

I have a secondary school ID and the picture is really badly taken. As I only turned 18 at the start of april I have yet to accumulate a variety of photo ids

I had my old secondary school ID, Student travel card, college ID card, laser cards with my name, and my forklift licence, coppers wouldn't accept any of them.

Its retarded, I had my passport too, so instead of accepting any of the above as a second id they insisted on having my birth cert.

cosanostra · 07-04-2011 12:14AM

Just get a fake id less hassle

brembo26 · 07-04-2011 12:14AM

Wolfbrand Morro wrote: »

I have a secondary school ID and the picture is really badly taken. As I only turned 18 at the start of april I have yet to accumulate a variety of photo ids

I would chance that with your birth cert. They will accept other photo I.D's (even if not listed on the agecard.ie site) once it proves who you are. Like i said i used my drivers licence and another poster here used there student I.D card. Its all down to the garda you get at the end of the day i suppose. But do try it.

Dublinstiofán · 07-04-2011 12:18AM

I waited 8 months for my age card. Glad to see there are some improvements on the initial delays

Wolfbrand Morro · 07-04-2011 12:19AM

brembo26 wrote: »

I would chance that with your birth cert. They will accept other photo I.D's (even if not listed on the agecard.ie site) once it proves who you are. Like i said i used my drivers licence and another poster here used there student I.D card. Its all down to the garda you get at the end of the day i suppose. But do try it.

Yeah I suppose. I'll go down tomorrow and bring a vast amount of identification forms I hadn't thought of before. See if any of them work. Unfortunately only the shoddy taken school ID has a photo of me. Its so bad one of my eyes is blue and the other brown.

Wolfe Tone · 07-04-2011 12:19AM

brembo26 wrote: »

I would chance that with your birth cert. They will accept other photo I.D's (even if not listed on the agecard.ie site) once it proves who you are. Like i said i used my drivers licence and another poster here used there student I.D card. Its all down to the garda you get at the end of the day i suppose. But do try it.

The guy I got must have been a grade A wanker then.

07-04-2011 12:21AM

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

I had my old secondary school ID, Student travel card, college ID card, laser cards with my name, and my forklift licence, coppers wouldn't accept any of them.

Its retarded, I had my passport too, so instead of accepting any of the above as a second id they insisted on having my birth cert.

Must depend on the Garda because I only had one form of ID and he signed it straight away. It was a passport too.

MoyVilla9 · 07-04-2011 12:22AM

8 weeks? I had mine in just over three.

UglyBolloxFace · 07-04-2011 12:23AM

Wolfbrand Morro wrote: »

Sorry if this is the totally wrong place to put this thread but...

I have recently sent off my passport to get a new one and something went wrong so I now have to wait 8 weeks for it. Now I just turned 18 and have no form of ID. Not fun.

But I'm just after getting my age card form in the post and I was over the moon initially until I read that you need a birth cert or passport and one other form of ID. I have the birth cert but will I need to wait for the passport or does other forms of ID include stuff like bank cards and school IDs?

Why the fook did ya order the form through post, when you could have simply gone into your local Garda Station, got a form, filled it out, left your photos/documents there, and had it sent off for processing there and then?

Wasted a good few days there I tell ya.

Age card question?

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