This afternoon.
New Irish citizens celebrate their new Irishness at the Convention Center, Dublin at the official Citizenship Ceremony, a tradition begun by former justice minister Alan Shatter (fair play, etc). A total of 112 different nationalities of candidates attended today’s ceremony.
New sisters, brothers and, why not, a friendly-looking-but-aren’t-they-all-in-fairness Catholic nun.
Mmf.
Also: irony alert
From top: Simbi Ayoola (12) with her relative and fellow new Irish Citizen Oladimeji Olajubu both from originally from Nigeria; Sister Odilia Kyomugisha, originally from Uganda, with unidentified Irish nun chum; Lulius Hegedus, originally from Romania; Modupe Tokunbo Apara, originally from Nigeria; Nikolina Damyanona with her daughter Daisy, both from Bulgaria; Dublin-born Likema Yonas celebrating her parents’ citizenship.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Builder O’Reilly must have gotten yer man in the door did he?
No. 4 could have just married me.
Get thee behind me !
If you marry an Irish citizen you are no longer automatically entitled to citizenship.
Plus you may have to spend a night with ahyeah.
Hence the paperwork option.
An eternity, Hoop. It would just seem like a night.
it’s never been automatic
Used to be if you were born here, though we had the ‘other’ referendum where we voted eagerly to remove the birthright of certain people because it said in The Sun that Africans thought it was a cinch to have a child here and we got all xenophobic and gleefully voted away certain peoples birthright. We never talk about that referendum, was not too long ago either.
That was a national embarrassment.
Can we repeal that after we repeal the 8th?
Not more nuns.
Nun more needed
Nun at all please
No. 3, great success!
Jagshemash!
Lulius Hegedus – i hope this means ‘magnificent moustache’ in romanian.
I swear I saw those nuns on the 15A to Rathmines. I wish I knew and I could have congrats :)
Fair play, in fairness.
Did the nun get in by marrying the wan beside her?
We’re having nun of that
A devalued currency…
Lulius! Good man yourself.
n’Awwwww!
Fair play to Shatter in fairness.
Welcome aboard newbies! Feel free to complain about The Road and remark upon the Grand Stretch and Great Bit Of Drying Out :o)
+1 A brilliant idea
Lulius!
A hundred thousand welcomes.
Lulius’s party tonight – anyone know where?
4th pic – Good to have Donna Summer with us.
A bankrupt country provides citizenship to all comers and exports its youth
legacy of Shatter, will he get his friends in Israel to provide rights to Palestiians
and restore to them their birthright, their homes and homeland that was seizied from
them…..the sheer hyprocacy of it all.