Originally Posted by
Christopher
The Slovenian border guard was wrong, I'd say: EU and EEA and Swiss passports are not allowed to be stamped when entering or leaving an EU or EEA country or Switzerland. The fact that Ireland is not in the Schengen area is irrelevant to that.
I don't know about "not allowed", but it is my understanding, too, that EU passports don't, on principle, get stamped on entering EU countries. This is something I've "always known" (i.e., since before the Internet) so I don't know where I originally got that information from.