Emergency British passport in Dublin.?

I can't see how you would be able to retrieve your old passport. If they have partially processed your application, then they may have also cancelled your current passport in readiness to issue a new passport. So as you say I think it's down to queueing and hoping they can find your application and process it for you on the day.

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