DMcG wrote "I am undecided - still! - whether to apply for a Irish passport. I have Irish citizenship, which is more important, providing the rules don't change. I may apply in the next few weeks, but in practice it would be more symbolic than anything else, since my wife is not entitled to one and we usually travel together."

I would love to achieve Irish citizenship. I'm entitled because my grandma, Mary Anne Mulholland, was born in Athlone in 1902. But the documentation I'm required to provide would be next to impossible for me to acquire. The spirit of Ireland runs strongly through that side of my family and my traditional music credentials are almost all Irish. Dammit. Dunno how to do it!