Irish passport
| Irish Passport Pas na hÉireann |
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The front cover of a contemporary Irish biometric passport booklet.
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 Ireland |
| Type of document | Passport |
| Purpose | Identification |
| Eligibility requirements | Irish citizens |
| Expiration | Booklet: 10 years after acquisition for adults, 3 or 5 for children Card: 5 years or validity of holder's passport booklet, whichever is shorter |
| Cost |
Booklet: €80 (adult 32p) / €110 (adult 66p) / €150 (adult - Pilot Rapid Renewal Service) / €26.50 (children 3–17) / €16 (children under 3) |
| Passport Card | |
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Front of the card
(note that the validity of this specimen image is TEN years, rather than the actual current maximum of FIVE years) |
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Reverse
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| Issued by |
Ireland
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| Valid in | All  EU & EFTA states    European microstates French overseas territories  Faroe Islands Georgia Greenland (de facto) Montenegro (max 30 days) North Cyprus Transnistria
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| Type of document | Passport card; optional convenient addition/replacement for existing bearers of an Irish passport booklet for extra charge |
Booklet: €80 (adult 32p) / €110 (adult 66p) / €150 (adult - Pilot Rapid Renewal Service) / €26.50 (children 3–17) / €16 (children under 3)
Irish passports are issued to Irish citizens by the Consular and Passport Division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin, Ireland.
An Irish passport enables the bearer to travel internationally and serves as an indication of Irish citizenship, as well as facilitating and securing consular assistance while abroad. Irish citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 172 countries and territories; the international access available to Irish citizens ranks 6th in the world according to the Visa Restrictions Index.
Every Irish citizen is also a citizen of the European Union by right. Both the conventional Irish passport booklet and the newly introduced Irish passport card allow for freedom of movement and residence in any of the states of the European Economic Area (EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and Switzerland.
Irish passport booklets use the standard European Union design, with a machine-readable identity page and 34 or 64 visa pages. The cover bears the harp, the national symbol of Ireland. The words on the cover are in both of Ireland's official languages, Irish and English. The top of the cover page reads An tAontas Eorpach and the equivalent in English, European Union. Just above the harp are the words Éire and its equivalent in English, Ireland. The identity page on older Irish passport booklets was on the back cover of the booklet. Newly issued passport booklets have been redesigned with additional security features. The identity page is now a plastic card attached between the front cover and the first paper page (the "Observations" page).
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