Originally Posted by
elatedscum
4. Directly relating to football, the result of removing the constitutional right has meant that they (DOJ/immigration) were further able to restrict the rights to citizenship. For example, a friend of mine is Italian and he had a kid here. He had lived in Ireland for 2.5 years before the kid was born but the as an EU citizen, the couple needed to be living for 3 years in Ireland before the birth for the kid to be an irish citizen - so instead the child is an Italian and Brazilian citizen (only taking Italian citizenship cause she wasn’t eligible for irish citizenship and they wanted her to have an EU passport.) There’ll be loads of cases like this. All our hopes of a Brazilian influx of talent is basically eroded by that. Over the next decade, we’ll see a lot of ridiculous cases where Irish kids aren’t eligible to play for Ireland.
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