50,000 passports were lost or stolen over 18-month period

MORE than 50,000 passports were either lost or stolen over an 18-month period.

Sat, 20 Feb, 2010 - 00:00

Catherine Shanahan and Juno McEnroe in Tel Aviv

The startling level of misplacement and theft emerged during a week when five fake Irish passports were used by members of a team of assassins who shot a senior Hamas figure in Dubai last month.

The Department of Foreign Affairs figures show that:

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