Originally Posted by
Aviatrix
No, that wasn't the reason. They decided to stop accepting EVERYTHING except passports (and national identity cards in those countries that have them). Just like other airlines they used to have a list of acceptable documents (though theirs was always shorter than those of their competitors, and had some weird exceptions - like "photo driving licence accepted only if your place of birth is in the EU").
AFAIR they got rid of the whole list at the same time that they got rid of check-in desks.
I bow to your greater knowledge on this one^
When I wasn't in a hurry, I found it amusing to watch the performance with the non-photo driving licences on a friday evening in the days when stag groups regularly travelled to Dublin.