Irish Passport Renewal

I'm actually confused and perhaps very lucky but mine was done in a week. My husband who is British got his renewed within 2 weeks. Admittedly they were not yet expired but it really doesn't take long. I really do think its down to mistakes on both sides. Actually the one thing I would have to give out about is the photo requirement. In my case I got a govt approved photo taken by a photographer rejected ...which I got refunded and yet a photo booth snap (costing peanuts by comparison) was passed with no issue.
 
My and my wife's passwords expired in February. I renewed them in April on line. Absolutely no drama, and the passports arrived practically overnight, the cards arrived after another day or so.
The only wrinkle is that it kept refusing the initial photo as there was a slight shadow due to overhead lighting. I went outside to a white wall and it accepted them fine.
 
Made application online last Friday for renewal of our passports. No matter what we did, our own attempts to take photographs failed so we went and got them taken in a chemist shop who specialise in this. Cost for 2 photos was €14 and before you leave they verify your photo is acceptable, give you a code that you put on your passport application form and up pops your pic. Sent off my completed application x 2 with €75 for each. Result of this is we got our passports in registered post this morning. So, 1 working day and we had our 2 passports. Well done to the public service.
 
I applied for a renewal passport online on Tuesday evening, it was delivered this morning.
Delighted with the turnaround time!
 
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