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Passport?
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Please can anyone settle a difference of opinion in the Doubtfire household. We would like to visit the Republic of Ireland next year. Mrs. D seems to think that we don't need passports to travel there, only some form of photo ID. Is this correct. Sensible answers please. Thank-you.
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Heres your answer https:// www. gov. uk/ foreign- travel- advice/ ireland/ entry- requirements
07:59 Mon 25th Aug 2014
For clarification of the answers above:
The UK and Ireland have a 'open border' policy, allowing free movement of citizens of the two countries across the border. (The concession does not apply to British citizens born abroad, nor to citizens of other countries). So, as far as 'the authorities' are concerned, Mrs D is correct (assuming, of course, that you are both British-born UK citizens).
However all airlines require passengers to provide some form of photographic ID. Ryanair ONLY accepts passports as ID for ALL of its flights (even those which are entirely within the UK) but all other airlines flying between the UK and Ireland accept other forms of photo-ID, such as driving licences and bus passes. e.g Aer Lingus:
http:// www.aer lingus. com/tra velinfo rmation /knowbe foreyou fly/vis aspassp orts/#d .en.456 8
Ferry companies operating between the UK and Ireland also accept a wide range of photo-ID. e.g. Irish Ferries:
http:// www.iri shferri es.com/ uk-en/f aq/pass ports-i dentifi cation/
Similarly, British citizens entering Ireland by rail (from Belfast) are advised to carry photo-ID but passports aren't required.
The UK and Ireland have a 'open border' policy, allowing free movement of citizens of the two countries across the border. (The concession does not apply to British citizens born abroad, nor to citizens of other countries). So, as far as 'the authorities' are concerned, Mrs D is correct (assuming, of course, that you are both British-born UK citizens).
However all airlines require passengers to provide some form of photographic ID. Ryanair ONLY accepts passports as ID for ALL of its flights (even those which are entirely within the UK) but all other airlines flying between the UK and Ireland accept other forms of photo-ID, such as driving licences and bus passes. e.g Aer Lingus:
http://
Ferry companies operating between the UK and Ireland also accept a wide range of photo-ID. e.g. Irish Ferries:
http://
Similarly, British citizens entering Ireland by rail (from Belfast) are advised to carry photo-ID but passports aren't required.
I was once on a coach day trip to Ostend, a party of elderly Irishmen came back to the coach drunk, when we got to Calais immigration every was asked to get off the coach and go to the immigration building and show your passports, one drunken idiot insisted on showing them his bus pass, the outcome was we missed our slot on the ferry and had to sit on the coach for two hours dockside until there was a space on another ferry. The moral being if your mrs insists she wont take her passport you could be denied boarding or loose a lot of travelling time.