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Why are passports so expensive?

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  • #62
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Kurz wrote: »
    He probably loaned Mick Wallace the money to buy the actual fields of Athenry and turn them into a sushi bar which has since become a ghost sushi bar.

    So now the fields of Athenry are the Wine Lakes of Nama???


  • #63
    Faith+1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    PucaMama wrote: »
    Is this true?

    lol


  • #64
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Kurz wrote: »
    He probably loaned Mick Wallace the money to buy the actual fields of Athenry and turn them into a sushi bar which has since become a ghost sushi bar.

    He could do with lending Mick a few quid for a stitch of clothes.
    He looks like he is doing a very bad impersonation of a scarecrow lately.
    Or is this to prove he is skint?:rolleyes:

    Shure come to think of it, couldn't Mick do with a nice holiday after all the stress he has been under recently???


  • #65
    coco_lola
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭coco_lola


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I can't help but reply but I know she's trolling.

    She's a master.
    Princeton Hundreds Sunbather wrote: »
    She (he?)'s pretty good, alright.
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I don't think so

    Started a thread about traveling in Personal Issues

    Trolling here can be a laugh but trolling in PI is just wrong. Pretty low
    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    (S)he's a troll. Look at their previous posts. Some funny ones though.


    Or else a complete and utter r**ard, and completely failing at life.


  • #66
    Kurz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 786 ✭✭✭Kurz


    mishkalucy wrote: »
    He could do with lending Mick a few quid for a stitch of clothes.
    He looks like he is doing a very bad impersonation of a scarecrow lately.
    Or is this to prove he is skint?:rolleyes:

    Shure come to think of it, couldn't Mick do with a nice holiday after all the stress he has been under recently???

    He always looked like that, not just lately. Even when he was rolling in money. Michelle Mulherin criticised his dress sense this week. That picture was taken in the last decade/century.


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  • #67
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Kurz wrote: »
    He always looked like that, not just lately. Even when he was rolling in money. Michelle Mulherin criticised his dress sense this week. That picture was taken in the last decade/century.

    What picture ? I was expecting an old pic of Mick !

    Thats a picture of her that was taken recently.

    That half a cop behind her on the far left looks a bit dodgy though.


  • #68
    luckyfrank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    Try contacting mossad im sure they have a few irish passports lying around



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI


  • #69
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    Try contacting mossad im sure they have a few irish passports lying around



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI

    Frank , look at posts 39 and 43.


  • #70
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    mishkalucy wrote: »

    Shure didn't Seanie have a fine time in Poznan???

    Living it up in the Sheraton too. Five hundred quid a night. Only the best for our Seanie.

    Chap should be slopping out in the joy and listening to the games on a radio.


  • #71
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    coco_lola wrote: »
    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I can't help but reply but I know she's trolling.

    She's a master.
    Princeton Hundreds Sunbather wrote: »
    She (he?)'s pretty good, alright.
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I don't think so

    Started a thread about traveling in Personal Issues

    Trolling here can be a laugh but trolling in PI is just wrong. Pretty low
    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    (S)he's a troll. Look at their previous posts. Some funny ones though.


    Or else a complete and utter r**ard, and completely failing at life.

    Who are you calling a retard?


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  • #72
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNAzo8FU2_4


  • #73
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Who are you calling a retard?

    I think the word is reward. :)


  • #74
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Who are you calling a retard?

    Conjecturing - not calling.


  • #75
    luckyfrank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    mattjack wrote: »
    Frank , look at posts 39 and 43.
    no im to embarrased now


  • #76
    Nova Miniature Eve
    Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Nova Miniature Eve


    Not commenting on whether or not HLW is genuine but there actually are a lot of people around with this sense of entitlement, who think their savings are only for 'fun' things and boring things like rent and bills and passports should be taken care of by someone else. I've no problem with people who genuinely need help, but anyone who can afford to go to Australia has no business being on the dole.


  • #77
    coco_lola
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭coco_lola


    Biggins wrote: »
    Conjecturing - not calling.

    Exactly - just looking at both sides of the story ;)


  • #78
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    hmm, much like that polish woman in donegal story, i can see the headline for the irish independent in the morning-

    "troll on the dole flies to oz to get her hole"... :rolleyes:


  • #79
    DB10
    Site Banned Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭DB10


    If you think about it, things like passport payments and mobile phone charges should not exist.

    Its only to keep the power in their needy hands.


  • #80
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Just flog your old passport to someone preferably an illegal immigrant, You'll easily make €80 on it, enough to get the new one.


  • #81
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    xsiborg wrote: »
    hmm, much like that polish woman in donegal story, i can see the headline for the irish independent in the morning-

    "troll on the dole flies to oz to get her hole"... :rolleyes:

    He was a poet and he didn't know it.
    I wish I could rhyme all the time.


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  • #82
    Rango555
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭Rango555


    Nova Miniature Eve wrote: »
    Not commenting on whether or not HLW is genuine but there actually are a lot of people around with this sense of entitlement, who think their savings are only for 'fun' things and boring things like rent and bills and passports should be taken care of by someone else.

    Yup... they are called wives!


  • #83
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's cheap! I have to pay over €100 for my British passport when applying from Ireland. Its worth every penny to see the "Royal Brittanic Majesty...." message inscribed on the inside front cover. I was going to say God Bless her Royal Majesty but its pointless as i don't believe in God.

    It's not cheap because you paid 20 quid more for one.


  • #84
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    Just wait for the Israelis to get into full production. When their printing presses are going at full blast, they'll be able to offer Irish passports a lot cheaper than our own Department of Foreign Affairs.:):):):)


  • #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Aha.
    I've only just copped that this is the same poster who complained about the pervy housemate but doesn't think she's a perve for checking out her lecturers package and who actually lives at home.

    I've been enlightened. How did I never cop that before!


  • #86
    December2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    PucaMama wrote: »
    clappyhappy wrote: »
    Its €80 for 10 years which works out at €8 a year, less than the cost of a packet of cigs (i think) or a half decent bottle of wine. Surely that is affordable.
    Yeah but its 80 all at once not 8 euro installments. If your not working its not cheap.

    If you're not working then where the eff are you going?


  • #87
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Rango555 wrote: »
    Yup... they are called wives!

    Bitter much! :rolleyes:


  • #88
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Well I am sorry for ever posting here. A simple enough question. Social welfare seems to pay for every other crap, thought maybe.

    And I am sorry for all the bitter people who thinks I have nothing better to do than save my dole with their tax. I worked long enough and saved loads of money to go back to college. I am now finished and still have some savings left. Just enough to have in the australian bank account. Which is why I dont want to be touching my savings.

    Im sick of this country and the people who thinks people on the dole are scum.

    I'l tell ye bitter people something, you'll be paying for my flight out of here, with your tax, or I mean my dole money.


  • #89
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Or would people prefer I go to spain and other places a few times a year and come back and continue with the dole.


  • #90
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    Nobody cares. Pay for your own passport and off you go.


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  • #91
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Or would people prefer I go to spain and other places a few times a year and come back and continue with the dole.

    yes thats exactly what people want, spot on


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