IEThe Irish Times
‘It invalidated me as their mother’: Irish woman told to return daughter’s passport
Dublin native in same-sex relationship ‘devastated’ after daughter refused Irish citizenship as she was not birth mother
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- #2839
- First seen
- 26 Aug 2026, 05:13 UTC
- Last checked
- 27 Aug 2026, 04:45 UTC
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- 2 versions
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Publisher layer
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 26 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Jack White
- Section
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Dublin native in same-sex relationship ‘devastated’ after daughter refused Irish citizenship as she was not birth mother
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‘It invalidated me as their mother’: Irish woman told to return daughter’s passport
Dublin native in same-sex relationship ‘devastated’ after daughter refused Irish citizenship as she was not birth mother
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‘It invalidated me as their mother’: Irish woman’s daughter granted passport ‘in error’
Dublin native in same-sex relationship ‘devastated’ after daughter refused Irish citizenship as she was not birth mother
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- #2686
- Observed
- 26 Aug 2026, 08:14 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
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- 655,474 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
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