proof of age in Ireland

chucknorris

I am involved in a football club in Dublin.

We have a number of kids of foreign decent.

A number of them are involved in citizenship applications since January this year.

They are due to play in a all Ireland soccer tournament in June. It has come to our attention that organisation, a sub group of the FAI are looking to accept only valid passports as proof of age.

The kids in question have passports but they are expired. They are foreign passports and until the citizenship application is complete they will not have Irish passports.

They do however have original birth certificates but it's possible these will not be accepted.

My question to anyone in the know is if a birth cert is a valid form of identification in that is MUST be accepted?
Not every kid in the country has a passport and should not be needed to play football in this country.

can anyone give me advice please on birth certificates and if they must be accepted as valid forms of age?

Thank you.

MagicSean

No they don't have to be accepted. A birth cert has no identifying feature.

chucknorris

MagicSean wrote: »

No they don't have to be accepted. A birth cert has no identifying feature.

Hi, this is the point. It is not a form of identification i am referring to as that can be achieved using a school ID.

I am specifically referring to a form of age.

BornToKill

chucknorris wrote: »

My question to anyone in the know is if a birth cert is a valid form of identification in that is MUST be accepted?

You did appear to be asking about ID, but never mind. Surely the best thing to do would be to get onto the organisers of the tournament, put the situation to them and have them make a determination?

chucknorris

BornToKill wrote: »

You did appear to be asking about ID, but never mind. Surely the best thing to do would be to get onto the organisers of the tournament, put the situation to them and have them make a determination?

The title of my thread is 'proof of age in Ireland'.

We did consider that but they know of the young lads situation and they know we are trying to speed up the citizenship application however explaining our difficulty now would most likely prompt the league in question to replace the kid and that would be a terrible outcome.

It is prudent I suppose that we consider the options before outlining our predicament to the league.

By the way, passport or birth certificates are acceptable as proof of age for a kid to play football in a league within this country but unusually a passport seems to be placed in there as a very unfair obstacle for this particular tournament.

Right 2B a liar

chucknorris wrote: »

I am involved in a football club in Dublin.

We have a number of kids of foreign decent.

A number of them are involved in citizenship applications since January this year.

They are due to play in a all Ireland soccer tournament in June. It has come to our attention that organisation, a sub group of the FAI are looking to accept only valid passports as proof of age.

The kids in question have passports but they are expired. They are foreign passports and until the citizenship application is complete they will not have Irish passports.

They do however have original birth certificates but it's possible these will not be accepted.

My question to anyone in the know is if a birth cert is a valid form of identification in that is MUST be accepted?
Not every kid in the country has a passport and should not be needed to play football in this country.



Thank you.

There was an episode of this on Law & Order season 13 lol a kid from eastern Europe used his 2 year younger cousin's passport so that he could play baseball in the little leagues...

deadwood

Their passports are expired, but their date of birth hasn't, has it?