Open dedicated office for NI Irish passports, urges Senator
SF Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile urges Government to ‘put its money where its mouth is’
Sinn Féin’s Niall Ó Donnghaile has called for a Department of Foreign Affairs office to deal with applications for Irish passports from Northern Ireland. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Belfast-based Sinn Féin Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile has called for a dedicated Department of Foreign Affairs office to deal with applications for Irish passports from people in Northern Ireland.
Last year, he said, over 82,000 passport applications were received in the Republic from the North, and even more from Britain.