About Marc
If you are thinking about moving to Ireland or want to set up a business there, Marc is your man. He lives with his wife and five children in the south-east of Ireland and is at your side with advice and hands-on help on every practical aspect of your plans on the Emerald Isle.
The family, from the Wendland in northern Germany, only meant to travel for a year. Then their fifth child was born in Ireland, and the four older ones told their parents they wanted to stay. Today the family lives near Enniscorthy, and Marc helps others with the questions he once asked himself. His whole story
Marc puts it all in context for you. He tells you what a price in a particular area really means, what an estate agent is selling you right now, which school suits your family and in which order to tackle things. Where it makes sense, he comes with you to appointments.
You take the steps yourself. That is deliberate. In the end you are the one living there, and by then you know how the country works.
The Irish passport
Many people who talk to Marc ask about the Irish passport sooner or later. It is one of the strongest in the world, it opens the door to both the European Union and the United Kingdom, and for citizens of the UK, the EU and Switzerland the road begins without any residence permit. In a conversation with Marc, who lives in Ireland with his wife and five children, it is about the practical side: which documents prove your residence year by year, how you count your days abroad and what has to come together for an application.
Through naturalisation. Under current law you need five years of reckonable residence in the last nine: one full year without a break immediately before the application and four years in the eight years before that. In the year before the application you may spend up to 70 days abroad, and 30 more for exceptional reasons. In September 2026 the government published the general scheme of a bill that would turn this into eight years, with a language and civics test and proof that you can support yourself. That is not law; the bill has not yet been introduced in parliament. What it provides in detail is set out under Naturalisation.
Through descent. Anyone with a parent born on the island of Ireland is Irish from birth. Anyone with a grandparent born there can be entered in the Foreign Births Register; citizenship then applies from the day of registration, and children born before that day do not inherit it. Registration costs €278 for adults and currently takes around a year. More under Citizenship by descent.
Your current passport. British citizens can keep theirs: the UK lets you take on a foreign citizenship and remain British. Elsewhere in Europe the rules differ. The Netherlands, for instance, as a rule takes Dutch citizenship away when you acquire another one, with a few exceptions. The rules are set out under Dual citizenship.
A second passport by another route. If you have no Irish grandparent and do not want to wait that long, you will find the other routes to a second citizenship within our network at Plan B Projekt.
Focus areas
- Choosing a region and a location
- Setting up a business in Ireland
- Buying property and viewings
- Schools and home education
- The health system
- Dealing with the authorities
- PPS number
- Settling into daily life
- The Irish passport and second citizenship
Regions
Ireland (the whole country)
How booking and the consultation work
1 · Book a slot. You choose the day and time in the calendar yourself and pay the £375 fee by card when you book. No back and forth by email; the appointment is confirmed at once.
2 · Confirmation. You receive an email with all the details of the appointment, such as the dial-in information. Appointments take place during normal office hours, European time.
3 · Channel. By phone, Zoom, WhatsApp or Telegram, whichever suits you. You choose the channel in the booking form.
4 · Your situation. In the booking form you briefly describe what it is about. The conversation is there to give you your bearings; ongoing support, for example in the relocation package, is agreed separately afterwards.
Ask someone who lives there
A conversation with Marc: your plans for Ireland, put in context by someone who has walked the road himself and lives there.