Concerns about the potential impact of short term travel on
applications for Irish citizenship following the decision of the
High Court on 11 July 2019 in Jones v Minister for Justice and Equality
[2019] IEHC 519.
The Court decided that anyone applying to be a naturalised Irish
citizen must have unbroken residence in the State for a year before
the date of their application.
Background
The case concerned a review of the decision by the Minister for
Justice and Equality ("the Minister") that an Australian
national was ineligible to become an Irish citizen as they did not
satisfy the period of one year continuous residence required by the
Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 ("the
Act").
