A bit of a late update on this subject but...
In October 2018 I started applying for an Irish passport which concluded in June 2020. (18 months, £450 and a wedge of paperwork). I am now an Irish (and again an EU) citizen with a paper passport and a plastic ID card/passport.
Since doing this some of my siblings have also put themselves on the Irish birth register meaning that they can apply for a passport in future should they choose.
Overall the excerise was worthwhile and has put my back in touch with a part of my own genenology i suppose. My UK passport expired just before my Irish one arrived and so i don't even have a UK one now.
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At the time of writing things are getting better on the Brexit front but only slowly. We hit rock bottom under Johnson, Truss and Sunak. Sunak improved one small aspect related to Northern Ireland before the Conservatives were finally kicked out by the ballet box.
Although i have never been a Labour voter i feel that our new PM Keir Starmer is at least an honest and competent person who will try to fix some of the things that are broken in this country. Some of these have been broken all my life such as a the ammount of housing that is (not) built every year.
Unfortunately when it comes to undoing the damage of Brexit he seems to feel that he needs to go very slowly indeed. Whilst i under some of the political analysis behind this it is very frustrating. When can't begin to fix the problems that have been created until, we the public, have regular honest updates about the damage that has been done. This in turn will create a feedback loop where opposition parties will need to conceed that Brexit was a bad idea, i.e. the conservatives will need to own this.
Until the EU see that we, collectively, want to be back in then i don't think they would entertain the idea.
Why this is so important is perhaps something i'll go into in another post.
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