Replying To Pikeman96:  "Yes, as <b>Tadhg2020</b> says above - if the Garda report is "clean", then you should have no problem in becoming a citizen so long as you satisfy the other requirements too. However, if it discloses one or more convictions of the type likely to lead to a committal to prison, then it becomes highly unlikely you'll be granted citizenship. Barney seems to believe that many prisoners are people who originally come from other countries and who committed crime after first taking out citizenship here. So my question remains: what does he think it is that makes these people who have been law-abiding for a minimum five years turn to crime and commit prison-worthy offences after they've been granted citizenship?"</div>Whatever about Citizenship, there are a lot of serious crimes committed by non-citizens in recent years. Now to be fair, the vast majority of immigrants are likely law abiding citizens, looking for a better life, but it would be foolish to ignore that serious criminals from other Countries are operating here too, so vetting must only apply in certain cases. Some could be Citizens of other EU Countries also. Obviously the murder of Ashling Murphy in Tullamore shocked the Nation, and I know of several rape/assault cases in Letterkenny in the last 3 years involving foreign nationals, which shocked people locally. I think recent resentment stems from those kind of horrifying cases, like a young woman walking home via Lower Main Street in Letterkenny who was dragged into an alleyway and brutally assaulted and raped, the perpetrator was caught nearby by Gardai with his clothes still covered in blood."