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ANYONE APPLYING FOR a new passport from the end of next month will have to use the ‘Passport Express’ service from An Post, rather than regular or registered post.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says the move is being made in order to make the process easier and quicker for customers.
A notice in today’s national papers states that all applications arriving after 30 June that haven’t been sent via the express service will be sent back.
A spokesperson for the DFA told TheJournal.ie the new rule would also make the process cheaper, with an express application costing just €89, compared to €95 plus the price of postage for the more traditional method.
It will, of course, still be possible to submit an application in person at either of the Passport Offices on Dublin’s Molesworth Street, or at South Mall in Cork.
A new appointment service has also been launched for customers who want to book a slot to have their passport processed in person at the Dublin office.
It is planned the same system will be rolled out in Cork in the coming months.
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29 going on 49. You are only young once pal.
@Jay:
That’s the only type who would keep a money diary!!
Have you noticed how many accountants and money managers come up?
Maybe if the journal offered a free bet to write one of these diaries we’d all finally get the account of the young life of the hard drinking tearaway whose rent this week is entirely dependent on the 3.30 at Kempton that we all secretly hope to read whenever we open one of these articles.
@George Bowling:
Haha, it would have to be a lot more than one free bet to get someone like that to keep an accurate money diary
Youth is wasted on the young.
@Laney Sinc: he is a very rich one and saving a pretty penny
Well done. I think you’re doing great.
Woke up, got out of bed, dragged the comb across my head. Made my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat.
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke and somebody spoke and I went into a dream.
I can only assume the engineer is either Elec, Mech or similar. His remuneration shows the exploitation large companies get away with. You can be guaranteed they are charging the client double if not more for his role. Of course I’m guessing but this would be typical of construction companies. After all the years studying being an engineer is no longer seen as it was once before.
@Thomas Meaney: He could grow a pair and go work for himself and double his salary immediately minimum.
no kids, carreer oriented and no life
@Dominic Leleu: People don’t seem to realise you pay for selfish choices at the end in old age when loneliness and isolation kick in.
have your say