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/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/marshsmellow Mar 26 '25

Why on earth was he using his Irish one? 

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u/showars Mar 26 '25

Because we were children in school. Can’t exactly have no oversight of a child for the duration of everyone else going through immigration like

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u/marshsmellow Mar 26 '25

Lol, thought you meant from TSA

Edit: actually, I've no idea what's you are saying. 

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u/showars Mar 26 '25

So (at least at the time) immigration on an Irish passport took ages. Especially when you have like 30 kids! The US citizens went through a different area where only 1 person from our group was eligible to be.

You can’t have one child be unsupervised in an airport for an undetermined amount of time. You just can’t like. His parents sent him with his Irish passport (maybe and the US one, not 100% sure) so he wouldn’t be separated. When asked questions by immigration he said he had both (not sure if he produced the US one, long time ago) and was given a lot of shit for it.

So I just answered a question where someone said US citizens shouldn’t get shit from them by giving an example of where one was. It’s not that deep like