Figures from the Irish passport office show huge increases in the number of Americans and British applying for Irish passports. The number of Americans applying has tripled since 2001 which is hardly suprising as half the world hates them. An American passport has to be one of the worst to travel on.
Several US websites extol the virtues of travelling on Irish passports pointing out that the republic’s long-established neutrality is a better guarantee of safety. “With an Irish passport you are at lower risk when travelling in areas of the world that are hostile to Americans,” explains ancestry.com. “Terrorists are far less likely to kidnap or attack an Irish citizen than an American.”They’d better hope that ‘the terrorists’ don’t learn to differentiate between Irish and Amerian accents!More surprising is the number of British applying, which nearly tripled over the last year, but I suppose that’s what happens when you sell your soul to the devil. The level of applications from Australians should be rising shortly as well then…“Yea, though I walk through the valley of darkness, no evil shall I fear…because