People have been asking the Irish government what the DeSouza verdict means for them

“This is unacceptable. I don’t want to be a British citizen,” one person who wrote to the Taoiseach argued.

Emma DeSouza and her husband Jake arrive for a press conference after the Home Office won its appeal. Source: Niall Carson

This decision is now being appealed by DeSouza; the Irish government also supports the DeSouzas’ argument, with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stating in the Dáil that Emma DeSouza “is an Irish citizen”. In other correspondence, an official says that they “got a call with a similar query from a Northern Ireland born Irish citizen asking a similar question”, this being ‘what effect does the DeSouza case have on Irish citizenship’.

So my question to you is do we need to move south so we can be proper citizens of our own land? On 15 October, a person sent a query into the Irish embassy in Rome: “Does my Irish passport still give me the same rights as Irish citizens born in the Republic of Ireland?”

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