# citizenship - Tuesday 2 April, 2019
Shamima Begum was 15 when she and two friends left London to marry Islamic State fighters in Syria in 2015.
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# citizenship - Wednesday 20 February, 2019
There is concern that this move could set a “dangerous precedent”.
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# citizenship - Tuesday 19 February, 2019
The family of Shamima Begum have said they are disappointed with the Home Office’s decision.
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# citizenship - Sunday 18 November, 2018
The right was removed in a 2004 referendum.
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# citizenship - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
Donald Trump plans to scrap the right to citizenship for anyone born in the United States.
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# citizenship - Saturday 29 September, 2018
A poll has found support for extending voting rights at 27%.
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# citizenship - Wednesday 20 June, 2018
To receive my citizenship a few days before the referendum to repeal the 8th amendment was a nice moment, writes Nicholas Ndlovu.
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# citizenship - Tuesday 22 May, 2018
“Any such change would be driven by a strategy to better integrate our newest citizens.”
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# citizenship - Saturday 5 May, 2018
The Today FM presenter writes about being told by people to ‘go home’ – despite the fact she is an Irish citizen.
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# citizenship - Thursday 11 January, 2018
Ecuador had asked London to recognise Assange as a diplomat so that he could be granted safe passage out of the UK.
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# citizenship - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
Senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore found out on Friday that her mother was born with a British citizenship.
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# citizenship - Monday 6 November, 2017
Dual-citizens are banned from taking seats in parliament.
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# citizenship - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
It’s down to what’s written on their birth certs.
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# citizenship - Thursday 21 September, 2017
New figures from Census 2016 have been released.
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# citizenship - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
Conservative Party MEP Charles Tannock has been vocal in his criticism of Brexit.
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# citizenship - Monday 14 August, 2017
Barnaby Joyce is the latest politician in Australia to fall victim of the obscure citizenship rule.
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# citizenship - Sunday 7 May, 2017
A group of teenagers in Ballaghaderreen have won a top prize at the Foróige Citizenship Awards for their efforts at welcoming Syrian refugees to their town.
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# citizenship - Thursday 20 April, 2017
Last year, nearly 4,000 Irish people became citizens.
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# citizenship - Friday 3 February, 2017
The High Court had ruled in 2015 that Sergey Chesnokov had established he was born on Dublin’s Henrietta Street.
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# citizenship - Wednesday 21 December, 2016
That’s according to Minister Charlie Flanagan.
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# citizenship - Friday 1 July, 2016
Gordon Reid examines the impact of Brexit on his British and Romanian family living in Ireland
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# citizenship - Tuesday 28 June, 2016
Eamon Scanlon said that the question had been “misinterpreted”.
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# citizenship - Wednesday 2 September, 2015
Richardt Strauss and Olly Hodges were also granted citizenship today.
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# citizenship - Friday 17 July, 2015
Three citizenship ceremonies were held in Dublin earlier today.
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# citizenship - Thursday 2 July, 2015
*Proportionally, that is.
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# citizenship - Friday 10 April, 2015
As of today, the country has 2,700 new citizens.
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# citizenship - Monday 26 January, 2015
Some 172,000 new applications were received in 2014.
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On Australia Day and all.
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# citizenship - Friday 23 January, 2015
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald was speaking about the country’s merits at a citizenship ceremony today.
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# citizenship - Wednesday 19 November, 2014
Luxembourg’s massive foreign born population means they’re on top.
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# citizenship - Monday 22 September, 2014
The country gained 3,275 new citizens today.
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# citizenship - Wednesday 21 May, 2014
Natig now hopes that his pending application for Irish citizenship will be processed swiftly.
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# citizenship - Monday 31 March, 2014
A spokesperson for the minister said he had a “tight schedule” to stick to today.
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# citizenship - Saturday 22 March, 2014
Both my parents are Irish, I live in Ireland and I hold an Irish passport. But that wasn’t enough when I was called interview for America’s coveted ‘greencard lottery’, writes Stephen Collins.
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# citizenship - Monday 20 January, 2014
Watch what citizenship means to some of the candidates at today’s ceremony.
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# citizenship - Monday 21 October, 2013
The Today FM DJ joined 3,800 others who took their Oath of Fidelity to Ireland today.
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# citizenship - Saturday 31 August, 2013
# citizenship - Tuesday 27 August, 2013
Speaking at a ceremony in Dublin, Minister Alan Shatter welcomed 1,000 new citizens “from states whose names commence with almost every letter of the alphabet”.
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# citizenship - Sunday 18 August, 2013
If someone is willing to contribute to Irish society why do we put barriers in their way? asks Dr Matt Cannon.
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