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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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    Mute Darach Malone
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    Jul 9th 2015, 9:48 PM

    last week they were talking about this on today FM. a girl text in the show to say that she tapes bubble wrap to her steering wheel for her journey to and from work. then she pops the bubbles while sitting in traffic :-)

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    Jul 9th 2015, 7:44 PM

    So it’s like ejaculation, you dirty feckers..

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    Jul 9th 2015, 9:01 PM

    I was always disappointed as a kid when we got something in the post and they used Styrofoam instead of bubble wrap. bubble wrap and cardboard boxes, great fun.

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    Jul 9th 2015, 8:07 PM

    Snap and crackle i suspect!!! -Niamhs

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    Jul 9th 2015, 7:53 PM

    What do you mean new bubble wrap won’t pop? What will it do instead?

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    Jul 10th 2015, 12:01 AM

    When you try to pop a bubble it will transfer the air into the adjacent bubble!

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    Jul 10th 2015, 8:16 AM

    Explode

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