Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan (top) and (centre) with Rachel Kiddand and Richard Bonham
This morning.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan, at the passport offices on Molesworth Street, Dublin, announced details of a new Passport Card and accompanying app, through “which citizens can apply for a Passport Card, which will become available later in 2015”.
Any excuse
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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what’s all this ‘i am not a number’ nonsense? has BS gone full freeman?
Seemingly, Is like a passport but just for the EU. See, identity cards/driving licences/pieces of plastic you pay for.
Eh… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nW-bFGzNMXw
Is it silly of me to expect that, given the fuss they’re making, that I wouldn’t have to trawl through the passport.ie site to find any info on this, that there might be a link there on the landing page?
From the irish times: “The proposal is subject to discussions with stakeholders: the European Commission, the International Civil Aviation Authority and airlines flying in and out of Ireland, according to a brief prepared for the Minister.”
So basically, they’ve announced it without even knowing whether it can be used. Of course the other option would just be to join Schengen…
Would be far more interesting and compelling if they just made an app. Like Iowa does with drivers licences. They can use it to fly as well.
Also, the cards will be valid for a maximum of 5 years.
Sample card they produce is a 10-year one.
They can’t even be bothered getting the little details right…
Nice spot!
That’s right. Apple and Google should be allowed full visibility of all passport applications to the Department of Foreign Affairs. They should be allowed free reign to store this data anywhere on earth.
Good to know the Department of Foreign Affairs take information security so seriously.
One wonders what other gaping holes there are in Irish Government systems. I would hazard a guess that Ireland is bugged from top to bottom (and has been for the last 50 years).
The irony being, this sort of tat, won’t cut it, if you want to get into America.
ABM did you go for an interview for Iona?
what is that ironic? – it only would be ironic if they called it the American Travel Card or the card was in red, white and blue, or something.
So its an ID card for intra EU travel. But they’re calling it a passport, because we’re use to paying money for those?
exactly.. standard ID cards next for everyone !
How is yer wan from the Cranberries involved?
Surprised the staff on Molesworth Street, aint on strike, surely they had to introduce a new machine to make the new passport….
Opening up a greater risk of forgery with that.
Their use of ‘celtic’ font for the promo slide shows me it’s completely trustworthy and probably been around for centuries anyway. Or at least the late 90s.
Didn’t think Dolores O’Riordan would be a suitable example for a new passport?
Should be some kind of negotiation with UK to try and preserve the Common Travel Area while still allowing us to join the Shangan zone and we could do away with all passports to European destinations. Fat chance of that happening though with the large xenophobic elements of the UK political system.
Or we could just join Schengen and forget about the common travel zone. It’s not like we have never enforced the border up North before…
Apparently the passports website is insecure. Nice.
http://i.imgur.com/559kv1G.jpg?1
In fairness, how can anyone trust SSL certificate “authorities” these days?
Needs more Mossad.
What doesn’t?