{"id":391114,"date":"2018-12-31T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-record-number-of-britons-seeking-irish-passports\/"},"modified":"2018-12-31T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:07:35","slug":"presstv-record-number-of-britons-seeking-irish-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-record-number-of-britons-seeking-irish-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Record number of Britons seeking Irish passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An increasing number of Britons are applying for Irish passports to be able to keep their EU citizenship once the UK leaves the bloc next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Ireland\u2019s foreign office said the number of British citizens applying for Irish passports went up by 22% in 2018, more than double the total number of annual applications registered in 2015, a year before the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 84,855 applications for Irish passports have been from the North and 98,544\u00a0from Great Britain so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re anticipating a significant increase again in terms of the number of people in Britain applying for Irish passports. Clearly, if there was a no-deal Brexit, that may well be a significant figure,\u201d said Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney (pictured below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20181231\/28135df6-42bb-4483-a747-a1008df520c3.jpg\" width=\"550\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to anticipate and prepare for that, and we are,\u201d Coveney added.<\/p>\n<p>British citizens who have been born in the Irish Republic or Northern Ireland or those with an Irish&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/31\/584457\/UK-Britain-British-passport-Brexit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increasing number of Britons are applying for Irish passports to be able to keep their EU citizenship once the UK leaves the bloc next year. On Monday, Ireland\u2019s foreign office said the number of British citizens applying for Irish passports went up by 22% in 2018, more than double the total number of annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}