Dana offers to renounce US citizenship in latest Presidential row
All kinds of everything in bizarre passport story
Published Monday, October 10, 2011, 7:58 AM
Updated Monday, October 10, 2011, 9:44 AM
Scallon then read out the text of her US naturalization certificate, issued in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 8, 1999.
She added: “It is for Rosemary Scallon, US emigration and naturalization service, in other words, when I became a citizen, and the date is October 8, 1999.”
A spokeswoman for Dana later said the singer would be happy to show the documents if asked but isn’t in a position to publish it. “It is punishable by law to copy, print or photograph without lawful authority,” she said.
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BARNEYKX | Oct 12, 2011, 12:24 AM EDT
I read in today's Sunday Independent that the Dept of Finance confirmed the 2010 President's salary as 325k and expenses paid to her in 2010 as 317k. Was she paying for aviation fuel or what!
THATS WHAT DANAS AFTER THE DOUGH
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abhainn | Oct 10, 2011, 07:27 PM EDT
1. There is no mechanism for renouncing US citizenship. 2. Despite widespread statements to the contrary, *naturalized* American citizens may not hold dual citizenship: They swear an oath of allegiance to the US and explicitly renounce former citizenship; the oath contains no loopholes. 3. Rosemary Scallon was formerly British and Irish, but she swore the oath and now is neither; she is American only. 4. She will not be elected president of Ireland but if she were, it would create a constitutional crisis because only Irish citizens can be president and any Irish citizen could challenge the election result in court based on Scallon's non-Irish nationality. 4. Eamon de Valera had dual citizenship because he was *born* in the US; he was not naturalized. 5. Rosemary Scallon made her choice and took the oath: Legally, she is no longer an Irish woman. The matter is clear: Read the oath yourself.
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JBRAFTREE | Oct 10, 2011, 07:24 PM EDT
Don't know much about her, but, anyone that renounces their U. S. citizenship without a bit of a fight, I don't believe to be for the people.
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sirpeter | Oct 10, 2011, 05:54 PM EDT
Creakygate you just have it in for Dana because she pipped the Brits in the Eurovision that year.Is Mary Hopkin still knocking I wonder? *Sings* Knock!! Knock!! whose theeere?!!!Second but no cigar. Tee-hee
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Towngate | Oct 10, 2011, 01:03 PM EDT
Gobs: Go? ~ She already a goner! What a shyster! ~ Not even the Pope can't save her plan for holey Ireland now!
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Springfield9 | Oct 10, 2011, 12:05 PM EDT
"Dev" had dual citizenship, fer Christ's sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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gobdawpaddy | Oct 10, 2011, 08:26 AM EDT
Can you imagine the headlines in papers across the USA if she were to renounce her US citizenship? Today she threatened that if prying into her family life continued, she would pull out of the 'race'. GO Dana GO,
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