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If you have a grandparent from Ireland, you might be able to apply for Irish citizenship—here’s how.
You can get Irish citizenship if you have a grandparent born in Ireland, even if you've never lived there. With Irish citizenship, you can live and work in both the EU and the U.K., making the passport especially powerful. Current processing times are around nine months.
One of those is 53-year-old Leo Hickman, from east Hampshire, who used DNA testing to solve the mystery of his paternal grandfather's identity. Genetic results and detective work revealed his grandfather was Helmut Grell – a German prisoner of war captured during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.