This morning.
The Convention Centre, Dublin.
Some of the 3,350 candidates originating from over 120 countries who took part in today’s Citizenship Ceremony, an initiative started by Alan Shatter (fair play, etc.).
From top: Arlehe Castro Evtrada from Philippines and Oyinkonsoca Eaymond Erinoso from Nigeria; Jun Zhang and Yang Zhang from China; Chika Kingsley and Adenke Mojo from Nigeria; Annet Iredale (left) and Deirdre O’Brien CCD Staff with Anab Ismail Mohamed from Somalia.
(Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews)
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and sure with the weather we’re having, you could use that roof as a raft if you needed to..
congrats, and welcome :)
Just you wait until the extended families start turning up on these shores.
But at least we all have a good rofl when the first Muslim player is welcomed to the All-Ireland Final.
Welcome all :)
I love these. Seeing so many people wanting and waiting so long to be a part of our maddening little country reminds me of how much I take my own citizenship for granted. Much success and happiness to all the new children of Ireland!
Keep coming. We need you to improve our knuckle dragging, flaky skinned, red curly haired bunch of inbred twisty eyed muck savage gene pool.
They’re on their way back from Vegas as we speak…
you forgot about the thievery, never forget about the thievery….
That’s no way to describe your family.
Anyone else picturing Punches Pilot as a teenager wishing his/her parents would die because they are just like SO EMBARASSING as s/he writes this?
@rotide
They’re dead
Did you have all the irish, lining up to shake yer hand, spouting out insincere crap like “sorry for yer loss” etc..
Christ no. Shooed them out the door as they came pecking for a free lunch, reeking of drink and fags.
yay! welcome!
Happy new citizens – yay!
Welcome aboard!
Fair play to Shatter. If he wasn’t so insufferably smug, arrogant and the like, he’d have made a great MinJust, better than the solicitor’s handmaiden who took over.
Disagree. Isn’t every Minister just searching for their one (yep, just the one) signature policy? Their smokeless coal ban, their plastic bag levy, their smoking ban, Citizenship ceremony…et al….
His reform of legal services was to be a lot more robust than the lobbyists shopping list Fitzgerald threw out though. She caved on pretty much every issue – bought and probably not even paid for by the LS and the Bar.
Shatter was seeking quite a number of signature policies – possibly too many.
Fitzgerald doesn’t seem to have any.
But she says ‘clearly’ every second sentence. Does that not denote clarity of purpose and singleness of mind? Otherwise what the hell are we paying Terry Prone for?!
Your hearts are in the right place, but saying welcome to people who have been living in the country for more than five years is a little condescending.
Did writing that give you a little bit of a stiffy?
You’re welcome.
We’re welcoming them as fellow Irishmen/women, my pedantic little friend.
Citizenship does make a difference, they’ve gone from being guests to part of the family, and that deserves a welcome.
I’m fine with saying Welcome to the family, but Welcome and Welcome aboard make it sound like they’ve just arrived. I do think a standardize greeting needs to be decided on though. Think of the sign-makers at least.
I suggest you form a committee and produce a report.
You joke, but I will.
The Committee to Formalize Nationalization Salutations (FNS committee).
Anyone interested email me at FNS_committee@gmail.com.
I’m impressed.
Have you been to one of these ceremonies… no, I didn’t think so. ‘Welcome’ is heard left right and centre and from every corner, and as Gaeilge too.
Now, go back to bed.
As a poem (some poetic licence):
Have you been
to one of these
ceremonies…
no, I didn’t think so
‘Welcome’ is heard
left right and centre
from every corner
as Gaeilge too.
I sang this to Neil Young’s ‘Out on The Weekend’.
I read all poetry in the voice of Seamus Heaney.
I like the cut o’ your jib Ego :)
Fair play, in fairness.
Happy, clearly grateful people. Delighted to have them here!
I love these posts they always brighten my day. I am so glad my kids will grow up in a more diverse and interesting Ireland.
+1
Is there reciporical Citizenship for us the Irish in all the Countries that these
people came from, the generousity of Alan Shatter, wonder if he could have a chat
with the Israeli’s to grant human rights to the people Palenstine.
We export our own and grant citizenship to all comers…..we must be daft.
We don’t ‘grant citizenship to all comers’.
A colleague of mine had his ceremony last year. He has lived here for 10 years and is a very highly-educated guy. Work-wise he has skills which are nigh on impossible to replace and from a personal perspective, he has contributed a huge amount to his community.
I wonder whether somebody who knows you could say the same things.
I don’t think Alan’s meeting the rest of The Cabal for a while yet. Well, not until they need more ‘special’ matzo. Even when it’s a nice story about a nice thing happening to nice people, it’s still the fault of The Wily Jew™.
Good ta’ have ye as onna’us
Ole Ole Ole Ole
Oolllee
Oollee
Being Irish means nothing anymore.
Welcome to the thunder dome !!
:-J