{"id":228740,"date":"2026-01-10T21:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/ireland-recalls-almost-13000-passports-over-missing-irl-code"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:10:34","slug":"ireland-recalls-almost-13000-passports-over-missing-irl-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/ireland-recalls-almost-13000-passports-over-missing-irl-code","title":{"rendered":"Ireland recalls almost 13,000 passports over missing \u2018IRL\u2019 code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ireland-recalls-almost-13000-passports-over-missing-irl-code.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs has recalled nearly 13,000 passports after a software update caused a printing defect.<\/p>\n<p>The printing error makes the documents non-compliant with international travel standards and potentially unreadable at automated border gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs has recalled nearly 13,000 passports after a software update caused a printing defect. The printing error makes the documents non-compliant with international travel standards and potentially unreadable at automated border gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}