3,000 welcomes to our newest Irish citizens

Applications by British people for Irish citizenship has increased more than tenfold in the last three years.

Yesterday, at a special ceremony in Dublin, 3,200 people were conferred with Irish citizenship and 234 of them were British.

From the beginning of 2017 to the end of September, there were 624 applications for citizenship from British nationals. This is compared with 46 applications in 2014. This represents an increase of 1,256%.