Does my 2 year old need a passport for Republic of Ireland?
My 2 and a half year old son is a UK citizen, as are my husband and I, but he doesn’t yet have his own passport.
We’ve just been invited to my sister’s in-laws in the Republic of Ireland for a weekend in May, and were wondering whether we’d be able to go in light of our son being passport-less.
I know that adult British Citizens can travel between the UK and Ireland on just a form of photo ID. Could my son travel of his birth certificate, for example, or does he have to have a passport?
Unless you plan to fly on ryanair (they require all passengers to hold a machine-readable travel document = passport) you can just travel on any form of photo ID and no ID is required for minors (below 16) travelling with their parents.
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http://www.aerlingus.com/cgi-bin/obel01im1/bookonline/initialiseHomepage.do ..
If you are going by plane, then yes . however if you are getting the ferry In 10 years of travelling to the ROI twice a year I have never been asked to show a passport, but i still would get one for him, just in case it’s about £36 and it’s valid for 5 years so it’s not too unreasonable
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Unless you plan to fly on ryanair (they require all passengers to hold a machine-readable travel document = passport) you can just travel on any form of photo ID and no ID is required for minors (below 16) travelling with their parents.
Source(s):
http://www.aerlingus.com/cgi-bin/obel01im1/bookonline/initialiseHomepage.do ..
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