PICS: Ireland welcomes its newest 3,350 citizens

Little girls with pink bows in their hair, tall men in turbans, and nuns in habits were just some of the 3,350 people in Dublin’s Convention Centre yesterday being declared as Ireland’s newest citizens.

Their declarations, brings the number of new Irish citizens, in the last four and a half years, to 94,000.

For a country, whose history both recent and past, is blighted by emigration, citizenship ceremonies here are a sight to behold — as thousands of former immigrants are welcomed with open arms into the Irish family.