Call for Irish citizens to get British passports

This story is just too, too, too ludicrous!!!!!!!! I'm a 2nd generation Irish-American and "even I" can not imagine why...after what the Irish went through in the early 1900's....any Irishman would "want" a Brit passport. That's like denying what your ancesters fought against. It is a travesty for this Reverend to even suggest this....

It is simply common sense - you are entitled to dual citizenship in Northern Ireland based on the notion of wquality - the same should be afforded those in the South!

Jacer another story! Standing in a short queue marked "other passports" at Dover some years ago the pommy customs official refused to allow me to pass and that I had to stand in the huge Queue with British passport holders. Who needs there passport,an Irish passport is safer and respected in more countries than a British passport

If people in the north want to be British citizens, fine , give them a British passport and let them go to England where they feel more comfortable

I hafta tell a story: I, an Irish citizen, was sent to an foreign country by my job. I needed a visa and duly received it. Later, my time on the job in the country needed to be extended. I was asked by visa officials of that country that if I could get a British passport, my extension could be more easily granted. I swore blindly at the officials’ suggestion and demanded that my right to be an Irish citizen and p/port holder be respected. My visa extension was duly granted.

If history is an indicator, the suggestion is as stupid as stupid gets. I agree that citizens of the Republic of Ireland, a free and independent country, should not have to have British (English) passports. That is tantamount to saying "we still are part of the UK or the Commonwealth" which the Republic of Ireland is NOT. Maybe the Brits should apply for Irish citizenship.

British passports for Irish citizens? Didn't we fight a war to get out from under those sodding bastards? Kick the queen out of the country like we did in 1916. britain is going down the tubes (finally!) and they are leeching out to anyone who can shore them up. Down with brits; Erin go braugh!

Up until the 'troubles' in the late 1960's, it was common for Northern Irish Protestants to come south for their summer holidays and hold their parades at their holiday veues. In particular, I recall that the 12th was celebrated in the seaside resort of Kilkee, Co Clare, where they would assemble outside their lodgings on the West End and parade around the horse shoe shaped bay to the East End and back. They were never molsested. On the contrary, locals would line the footpaths and applaud them. That all changed with the pogroms against the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marches, the ultimate assault being by the British Army Paratroop Regiment in Derry on 31 January 1972.