Originally Posted by
Globaliser
My understanding is that the Irish are now examining all non-British non-Irish air passengers as if the CTA didn't exist.
It's been like this at Irish airports for a couple of years. The Irish just decided to start looking at passports, whereas in the opposite direction arrivals from Ireland into the UK still adhere to the CTA agreement.
As I understand it, it was just a convenience of the Dublin Airport Authority to put all arrivals from everywhere in one place instead of dividing them as they used to do, and it spread from there.
Of course under any reasonable government the UK Foreign Office would have gripped this straight away, and brought it back to the requirements of the agreement between the UK and Ireland. But the UK Foreign Office, under its current Maestro David Miliband and his predecessors, have never cared for things as boring as convenience of travellers from the UK, there aren't a lot of champagne receptions at embassies or media opportunities for the Minister to be got out of that, so they aren't interested.
If you want to go to Dublin for this event, fly to Belfast and rent a car. Takes less than 2 hours to drive from Belfast International to Dublin nowadays. You can't even tell where the border is (no signs) unless you know the relevant roadmarking standards (side of the road has white lines un the UK, yellow lines in Ireland). The CTA still applies universally to road journeys across the border.