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Irish passport holders in Northern Ireland will not be able to use EU Digital Covid Cert

The certificate is due to be rolled out in the Republic of Ireland tomorrow.

MOST IRISH PASSPORT holders who live in Northern Ireland will not be able to use the EU Digital Covid Certificate, BBC News has reported.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and other senior Irish government ministers have previously indicated that they would.

The vaccine “passport” to facilitate the return of international travel comes into effect in the Republic of Ireland tomorrow.

Last week, over two million people in the Republic of Ireland received their certificates

But many Irish passport holders in Northern Ireland will not be able to get the certificate because they were not vaccinated in the Republic.

Senior Irish government sources told BBC News that this means the Irish state has no official record of their vaccination.

Making the certificate available to Irish passport holders in Northern Ireland was discussed by the Taoiseach and other ministers last week.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the matter would be “kept under consideration”.

In Northern Ireland, the Department of Health has said it expects an “international travel app” to be ready “early [this] week” for those who are fully vaccinated.

The EU Digital Covid Certificate, sometimes known as the Digital Green Cert, has also been made operational in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, which are not EU members.

It is also available to non-EU citizens living legally in member states.

The certificate provides proof that someone has either been vaccinated with one of the EU’s approved jabs (Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson), recovered from a Covid-19 infection in the past six months or has received a recent negative PCR test.

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:24 PM

    Fantastic. Please stop now, Maria

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:22 PM

    Her attempt to complain was a swing and a fall

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:24 PM

    Does the wording ‘overstated’ translate to ‘lied’ ?

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:58 PM

    Still jumping up and down on her entitled little feet screaming unfair over falling off her swing!!!

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:24 PM

    Delighted, she’s an awful trouble maker that one

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    Jun 10th 2020, 2:06 PM

    Swing and a miss from her. Her behaviour was abhorrent. Delighted.

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:20 PM

    SHAAAAWWWWN

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:59 PM

    She would make a great actress.

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    Jun 10th 2020, 2:30 PM

    @barney rock: No she wouldn’t. If Meryl Streep took a case for €380k, she’d walk away with €380k and still stay on the party ticket!

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:26 PM

    A lot of comment sections seem to be getting closed. I am sure there’s a lot of reasons for this but it may be a good time to read/reread the comment section guidelines in the spirit of good debate.

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:43 PM

    @Modern Irish Dad: her actions were astonishingly bad and people will give their opinion on it

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:50 PM

    @Alex Fortune: Thanks for that but I mean this in a general way across all posts where name calling and accusations have become the order of the day.

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    Jun 10th 2020, 2:38 PM

    @Modern Irish Dad: The Journal aren’t deleting threads and shutting down comments sections because of name calling. I get a lot of abuse online. Those comments are very rarely removed. The comments that reflect a spirit of real investigative journalism are the problem…

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    Jun 10th 2020, 2:44 PM

    @Sylvia O’Regan: I noticed you took a lot of heat the other night and defended yourself very well but it must have been dificult, no?

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:51 PM

    Maybe Donald Trump,might swing by,and give her a job.

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    Jun 10th 2020, 2:12 PM

    Maria, sometimes it is better to quit while your behind

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    Jun 10th 2020, 1:26 PM

    Seán

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    Jun 10th 2020, 2:39 PM

    @TESSERACT2020:

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    Jun 10th 2020, 2:06 PM

    O Maria go away!! Swings and roundabouts!!!

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    Jun 10th 2020, 2:54 PM

    In fairness the BAI upheld no complaints against RTE in 2019 out of 45 complaints made regarding editorial standards…….

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