6/ Ireland asks prospective citizens to follow its laws, contribute to society and meet the requirements placed before them.
Hopefully the final legislation recognises the commitment already made by those who have spent years doing exactly that.

6/ Ireland asks prospective citizens to follow its laws, contribute to society and meet the requirements placed before them.
Hopefully the final legislation recognises the commitment already made by those who have spent years doing exactly that.
2/ Jim O'Callaghan's response to concerns about people caught by the changes was essentially: laws change and laws hurt people.
That's remarkably dismissive. Laws can cause harm, but what reasonable government sets out to unnecessarily harm people who have done nothing wrong?