Beagle, thanks for that.
When I recently renewed by FI Rating (with a UK examiner) the examiner noticed that my applied IF privileges had not been transferred when I changed from a UK licence to an Irish Licence and remarked that this should have been done so this was noted on my IAA EASA application.
When my Irish EASA licence arrived it is endorsed in the remarks "FI (A) Rating NOT VALID for instruction for the Instrument Rating" - I have sent an email to IAA licensing querying this.
Practically speaking the only thing I really want to do (apart from basic instruction) is to be able to instruct for the IMC Rating but it would be nice to have the IRI on the licence.
Many years ago I was an instructor for the IR at OATS - in terms of grandfather rights does that qualify?
Life used to be so simple before all this EASA nonsense.