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Do I need a passport to fly from Glasgow to Dublin?

Would I need to use my UK passport to (a) fly from England to Dublin or (b) go by boat from England to Dublin?

  • As it is another EU country, and we seem to have to produce a passport to cross a border, I wondered if it applied to Southern Ireland. I know you can't fly from England to Scotland without a passport to protect from terrorism.

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    There is a Common Travel Area between the Republic of Ireland & the UK, which means British & Irish citizens can travel freely between both countries & need only produce a recognised form of ID on request, in practice it doesn't work that way. Some airlines (Ryanair) will insist you produce a passport, others don't but they will expect some recognised form of photo ID & ferry companies recommend that passengers should carry passports but again British & Irish citizens need only carry a recognised form of photo ID - driver's licence, student ID etc. The fact that the Republic of Ireland & UK are part of the EU is neither here nor there, it is not membership of the EU that allows citizens to travel freely, it the Schengen Agreement - neither the Republic of Ireland nor the UK are members of the Schengen Agreement so the same rules don't apply. Historically we have our own Common Travel Area which covers movement of British & Irish citizens but citizens of other EU member states & non-EU must carry their passports. edit: I am aware that citizens of other EU member states can travel on just their national identity papers, I didn't think it was necessary to go into here

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Here's the deal. There is a common travel agreement between Ireland and the UK. It is not a requirement of either country to have a passport to travel between us, otherwise there'd be an awful queue at the border to Northern Ireland. However some travel companies, Ryan air included, require a passport. Aer Lingus do not, and I've traveled Dublin to London with my Drivers License. You will need a passport to travel on Ryan air. You do not need a passport to visit Ireland. And, as an aside, there is not a country called "Southern Ireland". The name of the country you were referring to is Ireland. In the Irish language it is called Éire. To distinguish it from Northern Ireland it is sometimes descriptively referred to as the Republic of Ireland. We do not like the term Southern Ireland to refer to anything more than the Southern Part of the Island of Ireland, around Cork, for example. The most Northerly point on the Island of Ireland is in Donegal, which is part ofhe Republic of Ireland.

Cormac O

Sorry froggequene, but I must raise an objection against your statement concerning passport requirements for EU citizen. U.K. and Irish citizen do not need their passports to travel between their countries unless it is dictated by the terms and conditions of some budget airlines (like Ryanair) who want machine readable documents to speed up to check-in process. http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/moving-country/moving-abroad/freedom-of-movement-within-the-eu/common_travel_area_between_ireland_and_the_UK .. EU natonal/citizen do not need a passport to travel to other EU countries if their countries issue national ID cards to their citizen. At present all EU countries except Denmark, Ireland, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom issue national ID cards and that's all EU citizen need, unless some airlines or ferry companies again dictate other requirements against national/EU law. http://ec.europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/entry-exit/eu-citizen/index_en.htm?profile=0 .. Ryanair for example clearly states that a national ID card of a EU country is acceptable for travelling (since it is machine-readable). http://www.ryanair.com/en/questions/what-travel-documentation-do-i-need-to-travel-on-ryanair-flights .. To the asker: Re-reading through your question (Southern Ireland) I pity to have invested my time to feed a troll! Source(s): German citizen who has travelled to Britain and Ireland since 1975 (long before Schengen and EU) with just the German national ID card.

Gerd P

You don't need a passport to go to Ireland, but you do need some form of ID, so probably best to take it.

ah, just bring your passport. and be ready for some fun!

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