The Passport Office will no longer require a person to have a Public Services Card to acquire a passport, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

Nearly 20,000 more first-time passports were issued to UK residents at the start of 2019 compared with Irish citizens.

A number of the bodies involved in the Public Services Card expansion have said they will be talking to the Department of Social Protection on how best to approach the Data Protection Commissioner's recent adverse ruling in relation to the card.

For the first time ever, the number of applications for an Irish passport in Britain have overtaken numbers applying from the North.

A newlywed mum from Donegal who has had a baby with her wife in the UK has been denied an Irish passport for her 11-week-old son because of her gender.

Holidaymakers are being warned to check their passports are in date as soon as possible as sheer demand has led to longer processing times for the essential documents.

Changes in the manufacturing process are being blamed for a two-month delay in the new Irish passport card.

The new Irish passport includes verses in Ulster Scots as well as a map of the entire island for the first time.

The passport office is to make available to the Special Criminal Court any particulars they have on file for murder accused John Dundon.

As the summer holidays get underway, we are being advised of changes to the passport application process.

Changes to the process of applying for a passport come in to force next month.

Changes for applying for a passport come in to force next month.

An actor has been left stunned after he was deemed to not have a "proper job" by Passport Office staff.

A RUSSIAN diplomat has been expelled from Ireland after a Garda report found that the Russian intelligence service was behind the “forgery and effective theft” of Irish passports.

Six Irish passports may have been compromised by a Russian spy ring uncovered in the US earlier this year, it emerged today.

CPSU Members at the Passport Office have voted to accept the recruitment of 50 additional temporary staff for the peak summer months.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs and the union representing Passport Office staff have agreed a formula for the recruitment of temporary staff to address the 61,000 backlog in passport applications.

Efforts to find a resolution to the dispute at the Passport Office in Dublin will resume at the Labour Relations Commission this morning.

There are reports that the backlog in passport applications now stands at 70,000.

The dispute at the Passport Office looks set to conclude.

The poorest members of society will be forced in to destitution if staff in social welfare offices go on strike, it was claimed today.

THE Passport Office faces a full-out strike if there is a failure in crunch talks between the Government and trade unions which get underway today.

AS EU citizens we all have a right to move freely within the 27 member states.

BASED on what I witnessed at the Passport Office in Molesworth Street, Dublin, and elsewhere, I can only conclude that, unknown to me, the unions have snatched the power to govern from Leinster House.

The campaign of industrial action by public sector workers will be escalated if the current talks between the Government and unions fail to reach a resolution.

The ongoing row at the Passport Office is likely to feature top of the agenda at the annual delegate conference of the CPSU later.

IMMEDIATELY after the breakdown of talks with the Government late last year, the lower paid civil servants said they intended to take industrial action in the new year.

Passport services could be shifted to another department or even outsourced to private operators as the applications backlog smashed the 50,000 barrier, top Government officials warned today.

A security alert which turned out to be a false alarm wreaked further havoc on Dublin’s passport office today as a contentious work-to-rule left 40,000 people awaiting travel documents.

There has been a bomb scare around the area of the Passport Office in Molesworth St in Dublin this afternoon.

Union chiefs meet today to look at escalating their campaign of industrial action against pay cuts in the public sector.

EMERGENCY service workers will support an escalation of industrial action in the public sector in opposition to wage and service cutbacks.

The public services committee of the ICTU is to meet tomorrow as unions move to escalate their campaign of industrial action against government cuts.

An escalation of industrial action affecting Government services is expected in the coming weeks.

THE recent controversy over the help given by Bertie Ahern to Norman Turner in obtaining a passport has revealed the existence of a separate service operated by TDs for their constituents.

THE public still wants to speak to civil servants over the phone when they contact a government department — despite the rise of email and internet.

MONEY cannot buy you everything. Like many Cork people, Ireland’s newest millionaires, the Cunningham family of Farranree, were yesterday hoping for the Rebel County’s hurlers to beat Waterford and claim an All-Ireland semi-final place.

SPECULATION mounted last night over whether the High Court abortion case involving the pregnant teenager known as “Miss D” will go ahead.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern is to introduce new offences relating to travelling on a false Irish passport.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the number of people queuing for passports in Dublin has doubled due to the postal dispute.

FRAUDULENT applications for Irish passports have totalled about 375 in the past 12 years, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

More than 1,000 babies who died in Britain before their first birthdays have had their identities stolen by criminals seeking to create false identities, a new report has revealed.

A Garda sergeant has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to four charges connected with a false passports racket.