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No more waiting in long lines at the Passport Office

A new website will allow people, who are travelling in less than 10 days, to book an appointment for a new passport instead of having to queue up at Molesworth Street.

THOSE OF YOU known to lose or forget to check your passport expiry date just before you are due to go on holiday will be glad to know that a new trial website was launched today by the Department of Foreign Affairs that should put an end to long waiting lines at the passport office.

The trial appointments system, that will run for three months, will mean people who are travelling in less than 10 days will no longer have to queue up at the Passport Office in Molesworth Street to lodge their application. Instead, they can go to the site www.passportappointments.ie and book a specific appointment time.

A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs said:

On average, almost 300 people a day visit the passport office, and in the summer months that figure rises to 600. An appointments system will give people more certainty about the length of time they will need rather than having to take a day off work and spend several hours waiting at the public counter.

What you can expect when you visit the passport appointments website:

So hopefully long queues like this on Molesworth Street…

Image: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

And this…

Image: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

… will be a thing of the far, distant past.

Read: ‘Passport please’: Ryanair boss checks boarding passes at Dublin Airport >

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    Feb 27th 2012, 4:00 PM

    Merely doing what should be done. If there is no will on the part of those who should be following up on this kind of material than go ahead Assange and Anonymous

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    Feb 27th 2012, 3:28 PM

    Nothing mindblowing so far but still paints a good picture of what is going on around Europe and the world in general at the moment. Cant imagine it helping Assange thou, dudes on a fast track to Gitmo.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 5:05 PM

    I don’t agree with this action at all. As far as I’m concerned, STRATFOR is probably the only source of reliable intelligence and information available on issues such as Iran, free of political and ideological bias.

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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:15 AM

    Reliable? Free of bias?

    On the first point, they are incredibly unreliable. Have you even read any of their email exchanges on Iran? They made ridiculously sloppy assumptions based on poor data that any idiot who reads a newspaper could make.

    In one particular exchange, one analyst merely asserted that Israel destroyed some of Iran’s infrastructure, totally baseless on any evidence and according to his colleague, extremely unlikely.

    During today’s Frontline Club conference (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20736311) One of the reporters, Yassin al Saadi, in the middle east described Stratfor’s understanding of Middle Eastern situation as extremely poor. “Stratfor are an institution that seems completely disconnected from the political and social realities of the situations they cover.” “Stratfor lack Arabic speakers or experts, and over-rely on single sources.”

    On the second point, their CEO is George Friedman, who is heavily influenced by the non-conservative agenda. He wrote a book on it. Not to mention that they are partnered with Goldman Sachs’. Stratfor are nothing if not biased. The middle eastern reporter also commented Stratfor’s outlook was fundamentally racist against Arabs.

    Also, they’re an intelligence company so incompetent they didn’t even have their emails secured. They included credit card numbers, unencrypted. They had contact details of all their sources, all unencrypted. http://goo.gl/nG4ch.

    Totally incompetent. Corrupt and ill-informed.

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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:16 AM

    That was in reply to Daithi, btw.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 7:08 PM

    Wikileaks trying to stay relevant before Assange’s deportation case is decided, Anon purely in it for the lulz, still doesn’t answer the big problem I have with both – Who hacks the hackers?

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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:19 AM

    Wow Danny, you’re so informed. TELL ME MORE.

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