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All within Europe so looks like I'm okay, cheers. I'll book a new one for next paycheck!

It says for child's passport it's either a photocopy of a parents current passport (ours is out of date so not current I assume) OR parents original birth cert. So I'll need the birth cert for Al 3 childrens application, plus for my own as its an old out of date passport that's being renewed

Ya it's well over 5 unfortunately, been a quiet few years because of the kids 😂😂

Mine was the same. Dispatch notice on sunday and then an post updated the tracker shortly after 5pm.

Passport arrived. 1 day earlier than estimated date.

1 week and 1 day late for the holiday. New holiday rebooked now. Best of luck to everyone in their struggle to get their one.

You should have it in time hopefully. My new estimated date is the same day we fly.

Got through on the phone yesterday and the lady said there is zero can be done their end to speed it up.

Best I can hope for is that most of the checks were done before the hold up and that it will move more quickly than if they hadn't.

Too expensive to change flights so now looking at husband going with the two older kids and me staying home with the youngest.

Apparently this happens multiple times a day so makes you wonder why they don't do something to prevent it happening so often....

I think that delays because to quote the passport office lady I spoke to 'the garda might not have looked up the book properly or have been too busy' could be avoided.

Delays caused by a name not being logged properly by a Garda could also easily be avoided.

If this is happening by her reckoning hundreds of times a week then something needs to change to make the system more efficent.

I'm in Northern Ireland, and have a British passport which expired last year.

I decided to apply for an Irish one this time and have been trying to do so via the portal. However, every time I key in my passport number (and I have double-checked and triple-checked it's correct!) it says "Invalid passport book number" and won't let me proceed. Have tried support but the webchat is continually greyed out and the phone service just redirects me to webchat.

Has anyone else in the same situation encountered this?

No, I haven't. But when I start the online application process, it only asks me if my most recent passport was issued less then 15 years ago (which it was) - then goes through a few more checks before asking for the passport number. At no point does it ask if my expired passport is a British or Irish one. I feel like I'm answering the prompts honestly and accurately but it's still failing on the number.

It won’t accept a British passport number - all the questions pertain to an Irish passport. You will need to apply for a first time application since you have not held an Irish passport before