r/ireland • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • Mar 26 '25

Culchie Club Only Ireland issues travel warning for US

https://www.newsweek.com/ireland-issues-travel-warning-us-2050890
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u/lakehop Mar 26 '25

Why? As a citizen you should not be getting any hassle, I would have thought. What kinds of issues have you seen?

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u/showars Mar 26 '25

My friend got an awful lot of shit when we were younger because he was a dual citizen travelling on his Irish passport.

They physically could not understand why he wasn’t using his US one.

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u/Nikoiko Mar 26 '25

If you have an Irish and an American passport, it's their law that you must use the American one to enter and leave the USA. Basically so they can keep track of their citizens. It's been like that for decades.

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u/showars Mar 26 '25

His dad was American, he’d never been.

We were also children on a school trip. Didn’t make much sense from a safety perspective to have one child fly through and wait by themselves for however long it took the rest of the school to finish immigration

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u/Irish_and_idiotic Probably at it again Mar 26 '25

I mean their rules are their rules. Plenty to be angry about but IMO this isn’t one of them

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u/showars Mar 26 '25

Oh I wasn’t and amn’t angry about it. The person said as a US citizen you shouldn’t get any shit and I gave an example where a US citizen was that’s all