{"id":734775,"date":"2026-02-01T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/734775\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:06:20","slug":"sam-mcbride-why-its-way-past-time-for-an-irish-passport-office-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/734775\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam McBride: Why it\u2019s way past time for\u00a0an Irish passport office in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Some 120,000 residents here now submit Irish passport applications each year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Irish Secretariat on Linenhall Street\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7fb0a11c-9a28-4ca9-b01e-47f7f7613f5c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Irish Secretariat on Linenhall Street<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Why is there no Irish passport office in Belfast?<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 120,000 residents here now submit Irish passport applications each year The Irish Secretariat on Linenhall Street Why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,21111,681,1144,6410,11528,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-734775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-micheal-martin","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-sam-mcbride","13":"tag-sinn-fein","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115994347759385406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}