Supreme Court appeal on a similar case<\/a>, though warned a judgment may \u201cnot result in changes to how the law is applied\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cI was angry getting the email. I felt like they were saying I wasn\u2019t his parent just because I didn\u2019t give birth to him,\u201d Ms Ormond-Collins said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt like he was being excluded. He\u2019s only four months old. Is this what he\u2019s going to be put up against for his life, having two mams?\u201d<\/p>\n
She wanted Irish citizenship for her son as she was \u201cproud to be Irish\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt archaic. There\u2019s an image of Ireland being a modern society, but it still relies on laws from the 1950s,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Saying she was \u201cshocked\u201d too, Ms Collins said: \u201cIt\u2019s Robyn\u2019s baby genetically. How can his citizenship be questioned? His mother is Irish.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were both so upset. I think it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever felt really discriminated against and the thought that he\u2019s going to have that throughout his life is just heartbreaking.\u201d.<\/p>\n
Their son has a British passport, but the couple are looking for an Irish one for him, too. <\/p>\n
In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said it was \u201ca complex legal area\u201d subject of an appeal to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
It said it had written to those whose applications may be affected by the outcome of the appeal, offering to keep their application on hold until a ruling is made.<\/p>\n
Ms Ormond-Collins and Ms Collins, who met almost 15 years ago at university in Cardiff, said they would leave their son\u2019s passport application open until the Supreme Court judgment.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, the State appealed a High Court ruling that found failings in how Irish citizenship laws treated children born abroad to same-sex parents.<\/p>\n
In one case, a passport was refused for a Spanish-born child, despite an Irish citizen being their genetic mother but not the gestational mother.<\/p>\n
The High Court had found the Minister for Foreign Affairs erred in interpreting the 1956 Act as excluding her as the child\u2019s parent.<\/p>\n
In an application to appeal the ruling, the Minister and other state parties said the appeal brought \u201cno prejudice\u201d to the affected families, but said there was a need for certainty about who qualified as a parent or mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A same-sex couple living abroad who applied for an Irish passport for their son say they are \u201cshocked\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,8104,18,19,17,2324,17331,5049],"class_list":{"0":"post-212787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-supreme-court","14":"tag-wales","15":"tag-waterford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115654479385654160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}