Loony Louth

Posted on December 9, 2007
Filed Under Outside Dublin, bureaucracy, customer service, funny ha ha, la-la-land, stupidity |

A taxi driver called Friday drove me to my hotel last Saturday from the pub.  And, indeed, he was a very good driver.

A friend needed a passport renewal form and called into Drogheda Garda Station for one.  She couldn’t get one because the Superintendent (or Sergeant) had the key to the stationary room and wouldn’t be back until Monday.

Onto Dundalk Garda Station for the form. She spent an age queueing behind a Northern Ireland women who also wanted an (Irish) passport renewal form.  The Garda was convinced that she couldn’t get one because she wasn’t ‘Irish’ and she’d need a visa anyway.  The Newry woman made a convincing argument about the ‘Free State’ and the Constitution.  After consulting with a colleague, he gave the Newry woman her application form without a hint of embarrassment.

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Comments

One Response to “Loony Louth”

  1. Proinsias on April 25th, 2008 4:35 pm

    I find this story very hard to believe.
    You might have come across stories like this in the 1950’s but now with a common European passport, how could a Garda Sergeant even suggest a visa, or that with all the yapping about the now defunct Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish constitution, that someone from the northern part of the national terrirory of the 32 counties, could require a Visa.
    The sergeant should have been booted out for being a THICK BASTARD. Any possibility of forwarding his name? I know some Journalists who would be interested in publishing this story.

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