{"id":785592,"date":"2026-09-28T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785592\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:40:11","slug":"passports-now-needed-to-board-ferries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785592\/","title":{"rendered":"Passports now needed to board ferries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferry passengers travelling between Britain and the Republic of Ireland now need to show a valid passport before boarding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previously, passengers were not always asked to show a passport but had sometimes been required to have another form of photo ID.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes will affect about two and a half million passengers, including car and lorry drivers sailing from Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferry companies Stena and Irish Ferries say they are making the change from Monday to help them comply with UK government rules on passenger lists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One tour operator said he had already received cancellations because of the ferry operators&#8217; new policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferry passengers travelling between Britain and the Republic of Ireland now need to show a valid passport before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}