Foreign affairs department snowed under with UK applications for Irish passports

Demand for Irish passports has surged in Britain since Brexit.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said it was snowed under with a backlog of more than 30,000 complex foreign birth registrations, many from British citizens looking for Irish passports after Brexit.

In pre-budget discussions, the department said it had been a difficult year for their passport services, as it struggled to deal with a bounce-back in demand after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.