Do you need a passport to visit Eire from the UK?

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jono

No, since there is a common travel area between the UK and Ireland BUT remember that your airline might require photo Id.

fafandloo

No a driving licence with your picture on will do ,a passport is better but if you dont have one then use the picture licence . i travel to and from both places and not always used by passport.

Carly

You need photo ID, like a driving license or something (a passport would be fine too of course).

TherÃ¨sÃ©

No, but you will need photo ID if you are going by air and you will probably need other proof of identity if you are going by sea.

kenjinuk

No you dont need ID if your a european national, but you will if your overseas national look on the Eire website.
If your flying then the airline might want some proof of ID like a photocard.
if its the ferry then no.

younosygit

Contrary to the uninformed rubbish being posted in reply to this question by many of the answerers, UK citizens do NOT require a passport to enter the Republic of Ireland - airlines may insist on them for ID purposes, but that's a matter for them, not the governments concerned. You can walk, drive, or take the train or bus across the border from Northern Ireland without any border formalities, and last time I took a ferry from Wales there weren't any ID formalities either.

The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man form a Common Travel Area and do not have any internal passport checks.

jojo88

no, i live in northern ireland near the border and we can move freely from the uk 2 eire without even knowing it

MnM

No, but take it anyway for ID

annaleyah1@yahoo.co.uk

you need a passport to board any international flight even if a passport inst strictly neccesary. i believe you even need to take one for domestics too since we dont have a lphoto identity card in this coutry and since you have to provide photo id, your passorts the thing.

Technically yes. Do they ever check it? I can't recall a time they ever did! But, don't go without it. Seriously.