Some 120,000 residents here now submit Irish passport applications each year

The Irish Secretariat on Linenhall Street

The Irish Secretariat on Linenhall Street

Why is there no Irish passport office in Belfast?

Once, such a question would only have been asked by the most committed of nationalists here. Demand for Irish passports was limited, the issue was seen as controversial and even if those objections were overcome then security considerations would have made such a proposal problematic.