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> All northern Ireland citizens are entitled to dual nationality AFAICT, Northern Ireland citizens do not have any special eligibility for Republic of Ireland
by pimlottc 10y ago
> All northern Ireland citizens are entitled to dual nationality
AFAICT, Northern Ireland citizens do not have any special eligibility for Republic of Ireland citizenship; however, many of them likely qualify under the normal requirements which permit anyone born, or whose parents or grandparents were born, anywhere on the island of Ireland.
- caoilte 10y agoThat's basically all non-immigrants. Also all children of immigrants since 2005.
- pimlottc 10y agoYes, but it's not quite the same thing as "all". Around 9% of the population (as of 2011) were not born on the island of Ireland. Of course, this does not preclude them from having parents or grandparents who were, but certainly the number of Northern Ireland not eligible for Irish citizenship is not zero.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoWell perhaps I condensed too much, but Irish citizenship is a little unusual in that it automatically entitles anyone born in NI (being part of the island of Ireland) to nationality too, rather than stopping at the national border. Add in the entitlement for anyone with a British or Irish parent and the parental residency and it's covered nearly all. So no special eligibility other than that achieved by the terms of their citizenship act.