The passport office. Knockmaun House, Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2
Fianna Fáil TD James O’Connor has called for a six month ‘blanket ban’ on the processing of Irish passports for those those not living in Ireland amid massive backlogs pic.twitter.com/1vAq31F3Cx
— Sharon McGowan (@Sharon_McGowan_) May 31, 2022
Oh.
This morning.
Anyone?
Earlier: Baggage
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A highlight of this debate last week were calls for the creation of a minister of state for passports…
Remarkable how poorly Wales is marketed in Ireland for holidays. Now’s their chance!
Replace the humans working there with monkeys and boy will we see the service improving
Passport office Dublin airport all cut from the same cloth
” Beat the airport passport queues – become an Irish citizen ”
Doesn’t quite have the same historical ring as ” Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses ” does it ?
Suckered again.
Doh !
Fianna Fáil
To FAIL
1.be unsuccessful in achieving one’s goal.
not pass, be found wanting, be found deficient’ not make the grade, not pass muster, not come up to scratch
be rejected, flunk
2.neglect to do something. desert or let down (someone). disappoint, break one’s promise to dash someone’s hopes, neglect, desert, abandon, betray, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break faith with, play someone false,
do the dirty on, bail on, forsake
3.cease to work properly;
The list goes on & on. I was in tears making the links. Tiernan T is right we are a nation of lunatics.
Get rid of the Irish Granny rule and make passport privileges for children of Irish citizens only. That’ll reduce the number of foreign applications pretty drastically and bring us in line with most countries.
James O’Connor – another political firebrand with innovative ideas such as to stop providing a cohort of citizens with a passport service.
The function of the passport office reflects the capacity, care and strategic-thinking of the Minister in charge so it’s no surprise really that a sub-mediocre Minister such as yer man Coveney would preside over this particular cluster-fupp. We’ve been here before. It’s not crystal ball territory by a long chalk.
I always enjoy how the media would have us believe Coveney is some sort of sharp operator when in reality he is only there because of daddy and simple Simon inherited his legacy.
From dealings that I have had with him from a few years back, he is thick as pigsith.
Lol – pigsith, there’s a fabulous Star Wars joke in that. He’s a dolt – the full dud.
He’s delivered nothing, has the handiest gig in the Cabinet and struts around like he’s cock-of-the-walk because he can talk the talk (i.e. he can read the briefing material prepared by others for him). Where has he been in the midst of all of the talk about the passport office problems? Doesn’t seem to matter that he’s been rarely seen above ground on it – Simon doesn’t care and so what, the media aren’t prepared to eviscerate him for neglecting a function that has existed for decades. A function you don’t need a crystal ball to anticipate demand for.
Sure what harm has his sub-mediocrity done for him? He’s got the connections, he’s got the highly-paid gig, he’s obviously a Fine Gael darling so is guaranteed status until the tides shift in the party.
The only thing sharp about him are the frames on his glasses and the tailor-made suits.
Sith-head.
The media love him because he has that thousand yard stare thing going on that is actually just him, like Derek Zoolander, thinking like, really, really, really hardly.
To borrow a quote from Elizabeth Bowen, Coveney is “the stupid person’s idea of the clever person”.
I know it is not amusing to those now affected, but it reminds me with a little bit of fondness of my first passport application. It was the year they changed from the old green ones to the new EEC-wide purple ones, in its dying days before the EU rose in its bassinet and cried to the heavens,
I applied in plenty of time for my upcoming first trip off our sainted soil, heading for friends in Sweden by way of Glasgow and Copenhagen. Never let it be said I did things by halves. But the trip was for Christmas, the changeover of passports was October. The application in June was ‘delayed’ and issued in the first week of October and so is purple. I just missed the last of the green covers.
But at least over the years it did add to how I managed to get shorter without losing any height
…poor old famous Seamus…his passport is no longer green…and thanks to Mary McAleese, he did raise a glass to toast the Queen…or…Eilis a do as we call her here…