Kilkenny gains 24 new Irish citizens
Kilkenny has 24 new citizens following the latest citizenship ceremonies in Dublin yesterday (Monday).
The citizenship ceremonies yesterday follow three ceremonies held in Killarney in July and two ceremonies held in the RDS in Dublin in March.
This means that over 11,000 people have now been conferred with citizenship this year with further ceremonies planned before the end of 2023.
Citizenship ceremonies were first introduced in 2011 in order to mark the occasion of the granting of citizenship in a dignified and solemn manner.
Since citizenship ceremonies were first introduced, there has been a total of 171 ceremonies with people from over 180 countries receiving their certificates of naturalisation.
To date approximately 165,000 people have received Irish citizenship since 2011.
The figure of 165,000 includes the attendees at the October ceremonies & applicants who received citizenship via the declaration process introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as minors who are not required to attend a ceremony.