Why only Irish?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....niversities-free.html

Will there be a rush on Irish pass-ports after students have searched their family tree?

[Mick-Talbot]

It worked for the football team.

[THECORBYLOON]

It's not only the Irish it's any EU ciitizen but the point is there are more folk who may qualify for Irish citizenship (it seems) than any other EU country.

[FredPuli43]

Ah, I'll be chasing up the birth of me old granny, I'll be after thinking. Er..is there an age limit for students?

[pdq1]

The Scots will not take this lieing down. They may speak better English than the natives but they are also a sight more canny when it comes to financial matters. Expect a ruling to come out within days.

[emmie]

good can i start now, i need to be doing something with my life...

[rockyracoon]

My kids are half Irish, think I'll apply for their Paddy passports now.

[mike11111]

Canny buggers the Irish. Just think of the revenue this will create when people claim Irish citizenship. Actually it applies to me also as my maternal grandfather came from Southern Ireland but I think I am a little too old to derive any benefit from it now.

This is not new, by the way; I have known of it for at least the past 40 years.

[anotheoldgit]

Why doesn't the ECHR step in and say that Scotland is preventing fellow Europeans (in this case English students) from gaining free entrance into Scottish universities?

[FredPuli43]

Be sure that if the ECHR could,by now some bright lawyer would have had a client who is trying it, aog !
Probably , the availibility and conditions of education and grants is considered to be an internal matter for individual states. It's hardly a human rights issue; there is no human right for a citizen of one state to be educated in another, on whatever terms. Indeed, there's no such right for a resident of part of a state to be educated in another part, is there?.