Man accused of having passport in name of baby who died in 1952

The Passport Office sign on South Mall, Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

Officers from the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation arrested a 70-year-old man claiming that they simply did not know who he was and alleged that he had used the name of a baby who died 11 days after his birth in 1952 to apply for a passport in Cork.

Detective Garda Padraic Hanley of GNBCI objected to bail being granted to the accused man who was prosecuted in the name of Philip Morris of no fixed address, with a December 1952 date of birth.