Almost one million Irish passports were issued in 2019 — a record number and a 7% increase on 2018.

A judge has said that a Pakistani man who involved himself in a human trafficking operation here will get a suspended prison sentence.

In a recent written Dáil reply to Fine Gael TD Hildegarde Naughton, Minister Coveney stated that to date this year, over 490,000 passports have been issued.

Gardaí have delivered a “major blow” to a Romanian crime gang after they uncovered a “manufacturing hub” for the production of false passports.

The Cork office is responsible for processing passport applications from Northern Ireland and Great Britain, as well as applications from Ireland’s network of Embassies and Consulates worldwide.

One of the unintended consequences of the Brexit vote was that 200,000 Irish passport applications were received from Britain this year.

Irish people abroad can now renew their passports online under a new service.

Brexit scare stories are prompting unionists in Northern Ireland to apply for Irish passports, a Democratic Unionist MP has said.

The Irish passport is one of the most valuable in the world according to a new study.

Almost 780,000 Irish passports were issued this year.

The Government is looking at cancelling the passports of convicted paedophiles.

Ireland is on course to become the first country in Europe to cancel the passports of convicted paedophiles in a bid to prevent them travelling overseas to offend again.

The number of Irish passports to be issued this year is set to pass the one million mark, driven by a ‘Brexit’ surge in applications from Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Government will tomorrow unveil a new online passport renewal service which, it hopes, will ease the pressure it is currently under in the face of unprecedented levels of applications.

The rollout of an online adult passport renewal service will start next month.

The number of British and Northern Ireland applications for Irish passports looks set to continue its dramatic post-Brexit rise, the Department of Foreign Affairs has predicted.

Israel’s ambassador to Ireland has said he “cannot guarantee” that Irish passports will not be used by the Israeli secret service again, after their previous use in the assassination of a Palestinian militant.

The vote to leave Europe has caused uncertainty for some Britons abroad and even a rethink about keeping their British passports.

The Irish Travel Agents Association is reminding all Irish passport holders they will need a valid electronic passport if they want to visit America, or secure a visa.

A former worker at the Passport Office has been jailed for two years for processing passports for people who weren’t entitled to them.

People planning to travel in the coming months are being urged to renew their Passports in off-peak season.

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It is not yet known if stolen passports played any part in the disappearance of a plane en route to Beijing, but such oversights are not new, writes Jamey Keaten

International intelligence agencies have joined the investigation into the two passengers who boarded the missing Boeing 777 plane with stolen passports.

A diplomat at the Russian Embassy in Dublin has been fired and asked to leave the country after an investigation revealed Russian involvement in the forgery of Irish passports.

The Director of the 'To Russia with Love' charity has today met with the Russian Ambassador to Ireland, to discuss the use of Irish passports by a Russian spy ring.

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

New figures show overtime payments at the passport office have soared this year.

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

Members of the Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) are to vote today on the recruitment of additional temporary staff at the passport office.