How do I renew my Irish passport?

Living in Northern Ireland doesn't make it more difficult, just get the form, fill it in and take it to one of the many Post Offices in Northern Ireland which offer a check-and-send service. From the website you linked..... "The Passport Express service is now available from 70 branches of the UK Post Office in Northern Ireland and Great Britain . Passport application forms may also be obtained from these post offices and you may also submit your application through these post offices for a processing fee of £6. This covers express postage to/from the Passport Office. Applicants outside the State should use application form APS2E/G". Here's a Pdf list of all the POs offering this service -- you can also get the forms there. http://www.dfa.ie/uploads/documents/Passport_documents/copy%20of%20nipx%20list%2016%20nov%2007%20for%20website.pdf .

A lot of Post Offices in the North do the passport express: http://www.dfa.ie/uploads/documents/Passport_documents/copy%20of%20nipx%20list%2016%20nov%2007%20for%20website.pdf A point to note is that you don't need the passport to go to Britain. I've never been asked for any ID on the Belfast - Stranraer ferry, and most airlines will accept a citizen card, a northern Electoral Register card (with photo) or a driving licence/provisional with photo.

If you can't afford the train to Dublin how on earth are you going to afford to go to Uni in Britain? Anyway you do it you are going to have to pay a significant amount of money. If you are technically living in the UK now you can apply to the Irish embassy in London but I expect it will cost more than a bus/train ride to Dublin? http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=5546 I renewed my kids' UK passports via the British embassy in Dublin last year as we are UK citizens living in Ireland. It cost a fortune for one 10 year and one 5 year passport.

The quickest way for you to get your passport sorted, is probably to come to dublin. The passport office is right near St. Stephen's green about 5 minutes walk from it. You should be able to fastrack the process there.

You have to get an application from your local post office you cant download it and its only in select post offices. Here's a link to a list of all that provide it. http://www.dfa.ie/uploads/documents/Passport_documents/copy%20of%20nipx%20list%2016%20nov%2007%20for%20website.pdf Once you get the form and fill it in you send it off to Dublin and it'll taken about three weeks to get the new one. You might need to send your old one with the application, you will need a new photo and will need to send your birth certificate. The same rules apply you as to all Irish people north and south, on the form you only need to fill in the county you're from and don't even need to say you live in Northern Ireland. As you do live there you can call yourself a UK or Irish citizen and can apply for both passports and see what comes sooner. There a handy thing you can do were you go online and opt in to a reminder service. The Irish passport people will send you an email three months before you need to renew and give you information on how to renew. Here's the link. http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=81861

The quickest way (not going to Dublin offices) is passport express which is through An Post. You'll have to get the passport form from a post office, library or Garda station. I think they are where you can get them. You will have to fill it out and get 4 passport photo's taken. Then go to a garda station with ID, your old passport will do or driving license (might need proof of address). And get them to stamp and sign it and the photo's (they will know what to do). Then go to the post office and hand them the form, the photo's and your old passport and ask for passport express. It will cost €88 to do it that way but it is the fastest way as you should get your new one in 15 days.