Roughly £150 for the citizenship application and then £35 for the passport.
One of what, an Ulsterman?
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Speaking of which, your lads have seized on this thing to put a referendum on unification on the agenda. Exciting, eh? Then you'd never have to worry about any borders when popping up to see the rellies. Just 750k angry prods, of course.
That is the sum fees for one who has to become an Irish citizen as opposed to a person who has the family heritage to obtain one.
The fee for each application for naturalisation is €175.
The following are the relevant fees to be paid when the certificate of naturalisation is issued.
Application on behalf of a minor €200
Widow, widower or surviving civil partner of Irish citizen €200
Refugee, stateless person or programme refugee No charge
Others €950
Yes, I noted SF straight onto the bandwagon with that one. James McLean even found time during this preparations for the France game to tweet on the matter. Enormous ****ing **** that he is.
I suppose their assumption is that all or most Catholics will be Nationalists and will vote for reunification, the dirty Hun obviously not. I am unsure if it will simply be as black and white as that of course as (some) people will want to look at other economic and social issues as opposed to us simply having one football team.
I have to say an enforced border would be a horrible pain in the arse and I wish only good luck to whatever security forces were ordered to roll into areas in South Armagh etc. to enforce this.