Non-EU citizen, UK ILR, and Irish visa

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CTA only applies to British and Irish citizens. Even if you have a UK ILR or vice versa, you are still a citizen of a country you came from. If you are a national of a Visa required country to enter Ireland, you need to apply the Visa. Since you said you have ILR for UK and a national of a Visa required country then you need to apply the visa to enter Ireland. There's no short cut I'm afraid.

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Yes it is a bit odd & annoying that they allow visa-free travel with UK visit visas but not with permanent residency alright but not much that you can do about it.

The best place for info is probably the new Irish immigration website. They list visa processing times as ~8 weeks so you should be OK if you apply soon & are travelling at Christmas. May be quicker with less people travelling because of COVID, you never know.

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