Readers Blog: Our passport design is a melting pot of Irishness

The Irish passport is rather wonderful — a montage of graphics, images, music and writing, communicating our Celtic past and present. It’s ideal if you’re stuck on a plane, with no reading material other than the mildly depressing sky-shopping and sky-café brochures.

The way each page-edge on the new passport depicts half of a Custom House river headstone, which can be curled to reunite with its other half on the previous page, is its best feature.

It must have been a political and creative nightmare deciding what to include (and what to leave out) — hence it is an odd melting pot of Irishness.