Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
DANA ROSEMARY SCALLON has produced documentation that she says proves she received American citizenship in 1999 – not 1997, during her previous presidential campaign.
She said on Friday that her status as a dual citizen of both Ireland and the United States does not present a problem to her election campaign, and that it is in fact an advantage.
Last week, the Irish Times reported that Scallon had taken US citizenship in 1997, shortly before her first run for the Presidency of Ireland.
It said that it was decided not to disclose that citizenship before the election.
The report by Colm Keena cited a court case involving Dana’s family in Iowa in 2008, which outlined a meeting between her sister, brother and husband.
It was said that during that meeting it was decided that it “wouldn’t look very good” if people knew of Dana’s dual citizenship before that time.
However, on RTÉ’s This Week radio programme on RTÉ 1 this afternoon, Scallon produced a document from the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service which she said refutes this claim.
Scallon also said she would have no problem giving up her US citizenship if the people of Ireland wanted her to do so.
She told presenter Richard Crowley that the document, the Certificate of Naturalisation issued in Atlanta Georgia, confirms she received citizenship in 1999 – not 1997.
She also said she was saddened by the details of the “private family difficulty” being released, adding she did not like being depicted as trying to deceive the Irish people.
She said that what was said under oath during the court case in Iowa “was not correct” and produced the document related to her US naturalisation that bore the date 8 October 1999.
She said she didn’t become a US citizen until that date, and that she was not part of any conversation in 1997 about US citizenship.
My husband and brother had no recollection of a conversation taking place of that nature in 1997.
I said it was probably misremembered and I have to say it was incorrect.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
The Hoverboard Scandal of 2015 will be talked about for generations to come. “So did they really go on fire Grandad?” “Yes, Tommy they did, and the worst thing was they didn’t even hover.”
How can something with wheels be a hoverboard??
Morons call them hoverboards. So they’re not really hoverboards – some people are actually just thick morons.
Segways with no handlebars are NOT hoverboards.
Yes, finally someone has cracked it!
THEY ARE ********** N O T ********** HOVERBOARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hoverboard
Next time someone calls them hoverboards I’m gonna slap ‘em across the face. When they ask “what was that for?” I’m going to tell them my hand was just ‘hovering’ over their face
I have yet to see one of them actually hoover.
You haven’t seen the Dyson ones…
STOP. CALLING. THEM. HOVERBOARDS!
Apart from the fact that they don’t hover in any way, you’re meant to be journalists and shouldn’t be using slang in your reports?!
Emphasis on “meant to be”.
The Journal isn’t a Journal either. What’s going on!!! Everyone is gone nuts!
If that’s a hoverboard, I’m a vermicious kinit
I have yet to see one of them actually hoover.
Why sell hoverboards that don’t actually hover when they already sell other forms of transport like horses?
Hoverhorse? I’m off to the drawing board…
Nothing ‘hoovers’ as Hoover is a brand name. They vacuum, and Dyson’s do it rather well.
What ????? You mean we put the brick and on the accelator??????…
Pmsl at your comments .take a bow folks .very funny lol.
And yes there will be morons texting while on one and cause serious accident. . But that probably isn’t important
Hopefully they take a few selfies while they’re at it. let natural selection take care of them.
A lot of Bover and it don’t even hover.
They’re called self balance scooters, not hoverboard’s
have your say